Phenote:Main Page

Phenote - A biomedical annotation tool using ontologies

This wiki page currently serves as the public Phenote project page for posting of materials related to its development. In particular, this will be the site used for announcement and posting of working group agendas and reports/transcripts.

What is Phenote?

Phenote is a software application and open-source toolkit to facilitate annotation of biomedical data using ontologies. It is being driven by its development as a phenotype annotation tool, but is generalizable to any tool to be used for annotation using ontologies.

This is being developed by the Core 2 group with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology.

For more information, please visit the website at phenote.org

Who should be interested in Phenote?

Anyone doing annotation using ontologies. Specifically, anyone doing phenotype annotation such as biocurators affiliated with model organism databases, biological/medical image analysts and ontology developers.

Request tracker

You can use the tracker (currently hosted on sourceforge) to request new items or suggest modifications

• Phenote Request tracker on sourceforge

Mailing List

The OBO Phenote list is for discussion of Phenote software, announcements, etc.

You can subscribe or browse the archives here:

• OBO-Phenote Mail List

Phenote Developers Group

The Phenote Developers Group has regularly scheduled meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, 10:30am (Pacific time). If you are currently developing Phenote code or are interested in contributing, please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007. These will be conducted by phone by dialing in to 877.208.9784. Please shoot me an email for the passcode.

Phenote Working Group

The Phenote User group has a regularly scheduled meeting on the first Tuesday of each month, 8:30am (Pacific time). Please join us for our next chat on Tuesday, October 2, 2007. These will be conducted by IRC, although an occasional live telephone conference might be in order.

The goals of the Phenote Users Group are to:

1. drive the development of the software by prioritizing features
2. test new beta releases; reporting, and prioritizing bug fixes
3. sign off on new releases for the general public
4. contributing to documentation

Joining the Working Group IRC chat

To join in the IRC chat, you will need to use an IRC client and join the irc.sf.net #phenote channel. Alternatively, you can utilize the Phenote IRC applet through your browser by visiting http://www.phenote.org/irc_chat. Please visit this webpage for further instructions.

Members

A dedicated group of users are part of this evaluation team. They include:

• NCBO: Mark Gibson, Nicole Washington (Developers); Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
• Flybase: Michael Ashburner, David Sutherland; University of Cambridge
• Zfin: Amy Singer, Yvonne Bradford, Melissa Haendel; University of Oregon
• Neuroscholar: Gully Burns, USC
• NESCent: Jim Balhoff, Hilmar Lapp; Duke University
• Dictybase:
• BIRN:
• Wormbase: Gary S; CalTech
• GO:
• Xenbase: Erik Segerdell, University of Calgary

If you'd like to join this group, please add yourself to this list and contact [Nicole Washington]

Most communications for this group (including announcements of upcoming meetings) will be conducted on the obo-phenote mailing list.

Phenote:Agendas & Transcripts

• Phenote:Agenda: August 7, 2007; [Transcripts]

• Phenote:Minutes: July 3, 2007; [Transcripts]

• Phenote:Minutes: June 5, 2007; [Transcripts]

• Phenote:Minutes: May 1, 2007; [Transcripts]

• Phenote:Minutes: April 10, 2007 - inaugural meeting