Greetings!
I hope you are doing well. Below are the details of the *May 5th AgBioData
webinar*, we look forward to seeing you and hope your schedule allows you
to join us *next* Wednesday!
Darwin Campbell, AgBioData coordinator
on behalf of the AgBioData steering committee
Jacqueline Campbell
Ethalinda Cannon
Laurel Cooper
Lisa Harper
Sook Jung
Dorrie Main
Monica Poelchau
Meg Staton
Leonore Reiser
Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz
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*Wednesday, May 5th, 2021*Hosted by Monica Poelchau
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*Recommendations from the AgBioData GFF3 working group*
Over a year ago, AgBioData convened a discussion on GFF3 formatting issues,
led by Scott Cain. This discussion led us to form the AgBioData GFF3
working group. Our goals are to 1) identify common problems with the GFF3
format; 2) recommend solutions for these problems; and 3) promote community
adoption of these recommendations, so that data can be formatted in
standard ways across databases. Members of AgBioData, the Alliance of
Genome Resources, and NCBI have been working on these goals for the past
year. We are now ready to receive feedback from the AgBioData community on
our recommendations, in order to get traction on the final goal – community
adoption of these solutions.
In this webinar, we will give an overview of our recommendations and will
open up the floor for a stimulating discussion. If possible, please review
our recommendations prior to the webinar:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/180g1rfC5n_cR6sioG_LFGaUPNmQyDqTsPafVu4g…
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Past webinars can be found here.
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwMIJWOX7n_ZFoFpOsmCzgw/videos>
Dear All,
Once again, Shabari (TAIR) and myself (Marcela, CSHL) are in charge of the
organization of the Plant Bioinformatics Resources Workshop at the Virtual
2021 ASPB Plant Biology meeting. We were allotted a total of 2 hours on the
Sunday prior to the official kick off of the meeting. So, we would like to
get an idea of how many resources would be interested in participating in
the workshop.
Plant Bioinformatics Resources Workshop
Sunday July 18, 2021
4:45 PM – 6:45 PM EDT
If you are planning on attending the meeting and are interested in giving a
talk, please fill out the table below with your contact info and tentative
title (topic) of your talk to help us decide on how to best accommodate all
interested speakers or if we need to set forth selection metrics in a
minimum rubric (e.g., topics of interests from last survey, impact on the
plant community, interconnectivity with other resources, target users,
etc.).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RlLXxEF992PNByzRTclKqrTTdg1wF26tTrR…
(WORKSHOP page)
Our deadline to finalize the list of speakers is May 19, so we will close
this table by May 10. Again, if there is a similar number of resources as
last year, we are likely to follow the same format of short pre-recorded
talks. However, if we have a larger number, we might need to select a
subset of representative topics/resources.
VIRTUAL BOOTH EXHIBIT
The AgBioData Steering Committee is pleased to announce that all members of
the consortium will have the opportunity to have a virtual presence in the
AgBioData Virtual Booth Exhibit. The booth will have premium features
including the ability to virtually interact live and text chat with
visiting users, get analytic data of views/clicks, scan visitors via a
scavenger hunt, and other perks. If you are interested in participating, I
may be asking you for a logo of your resource and a summary slide to
include in an automated slideshow that will be uploaded in our booth.
The best part is that even if you are not attending the meeting, there are
free exhibit hall-only registrations, which would allow us to split duties
to "wo/man" the booth at prime times, and set up 1-on-1 meetings with our
users.
Anyhow, if you are interested in having your resource participate in the
booth, please sign up in the same doc:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RlLXxEF992PNByzRTclKqrTTdg1wF26tTrR…
(BOOTH page)
Also, do not forget the reduced group registration rates (regardless of
membership status and affiliation), before June 19:
5-9 People, per person $219
10-24 people, per person $159
Looking forward to having a strong AgBioData presence at the next ASPB
meeting!
Marcela
On behalf of the AgBioData Steering Committee
Dear colleagues,
I hope it is okay for me to share this message with the community. I would
like to kindly invite all of you to consider joining us at BOSC 2021. I
believe that this event offers a brilliant opportunity for many in the
AgBioData community to share the fruits of your work.
The 2021 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021> (BOSC) is a forum for
developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in
open source bioinformatics and open science. Topics include software
development practices that promote open science standards and sharing of
biological data and code, as well as approaches for building diverse
communities. BOSC is a track of the conference on Intelligent Systems in
Molecular Biology / European Conference on Computational Biology 2021
<https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021> (ISMB/ECCB), and it will be held online
on July 29-30. *The main abstract deadline is May 6th*. Please see our
announcement on the BOSC website for complete details at
https://www.open-bio.org/2021/03/24/join-us-at-bosc-2021
*Requesting registration fee assistance*: We realize that the cost of
ISMB/ECCB may be prohibitive for some. If you are submitting an abstract to
BOSC and would have difficulty covering the cost of registration, you can
request registration fee assistance during abstract submission.
*Increasing diversity in participation*: Please share this announcement
with other people and groups who might be interested. We are particularly
interested in reaching out to communities who may not yet be aware of BOSC!
*Key Dates*
- May 6, 2021: Deadline for submitting one-page talk/poster abstracts at
https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/submit/
- May 27: Talk/poster acceptance notifications
- June 3: Late poster and Late-Breaking Lightning Talk (LBLT) submission
deadline
- June 10: Late poster / LBLT acceptance notifications
- July 29-30: BOSC 2021 Online <https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/> (part
of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online)
- July 31-Aug 1: CollaborationFest
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/collaborationfest/> (CoFest)
We hope to see you online at BOSC 2021!
Sincerely,
~moni, *on behalf of the BOSC 2021 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris
(chair), Karsten Hokamp (co-chair), Peter Cock, Chris Fields, Jessica Maia,
Monica Munoz-Torres, Malvika Sharan, Jason Williams*
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/>
*--Moni Munoz-Torres, PhDAssistant Professor, Oregon State
UniversityAffiliate Professor, Lawrence Berkeley National
LaboratoryDirector of Operations, Center for Cancer Data Harmonization
(CCDH)*
Greetings!
I hope this email finds you well. Spring is in full swing in the midwest,
the crocus and hyacinth are now in full bloom and sharing their most
awesome aroma. Perhaps, unless you have allergies, it doesn't get much
better than this.
Below are the details of the *April 7th AgBioData webinar*, we look forward
to seeing you online with us, and hope your schedule allows you to join us
*this* Wednesday!
Darwin Campbell, AgBioData coordinator
on behalf of the AgBioData steering committee
Jacqueline Campbell
Ethalinda Cannon
Laurel Cooper
Lisa Harper
Sook Jung
Dorrie Main
Monica Poelchau
Meg Staton
Leonore Reiser
Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz
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*PhyloGenese helps users explore precomputed gene family trees with known
functions for individual family members, and assists users with inferring
gene functions.*
*Presented by: Peifen Zhang*
*Wednesday, April 7, 2021*
Hosted by Leonore Reiser
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PhyloGenes (phylogenes.org) presents precomputed phylogenetic trees of
plant gene families along with known functions for individual family
members. By displaying experimentally validated gene functions associated
to individual genes within a tree, PhyloGenes enables functional inference
for genes of uncharacterized function, based on their evolutionary
relationships to experimentally studied genes, in a visually traceable
manner. For the many families containing genes that have evolved to perform
different functions, PhyloGenes also facilitates the study of function
evolution. The current PhyloGenes release (version 2.2) includes 40 plant
genomes covering a broad taxonomic range and including all major crops,
along with 10 non-plant model organisms represented in over 8,000 gene
families. Over two-thirds of the families have at least one member with a
validated known function as GO terms. To increase the predictive power of
PhyloGenes, future work will involve community contribution and emphasize
on incorporating new functional annotations of family members across
families and subfamilies, and also adding complimentary functional datasets
such as gene expression and mutant phenotype
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