Last week the SO group (Karen Eilbeck, Mike Bada and Bret Heale) met with the Monarch Initiative (Chris Mungall, Melissa Haendel and Matthew Brush) in Portland, (OSHU) to discuss the integration/boundaries of the two ontologies and developed a plan for future development. This continuing collaboration will enable better genotype to phenotype annotation. Early outcomes of the workshop was the development of a set of guidelines for the annotation of individual genomes with terms from phenotype ontologies, and these guidelines have been submitted to Biosharing as a reporting guideline. The discussion included the difference between sequences and sequence features and a long debate about generically dependent continuants and information artifacts. This workshop was paid for in part by the NSF’s Phenotype Research Coordination Network.
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