iPTOL Data Assembly Workshop

Nov. 20-22, 2009, Hilton Phoenix Airport

Nov. 20

Arrive at Hilton Phoenix Airport

Nov. 21

7:00         Breakfast Buffet in Ballroom 2 & 3 Foyer

8:30         Intro to iPlant – STEVE GOFF

8:45         Intro to iPTOL – MIKE SANDERSON (with input from WG leads)

9:00         Goals of Workshop:  emphasis on DATA ASSEMBLY:  PAM SOLTIS 

9:15         Access to data:  current pipelines – GORDON BURLEIGH, STEPHEN SMITH

9:35         Big-tree analysis:  state-of-the-art – ALEXIS STAMATAKIS

9:50         Tree databasing and trees as data

                a.  TreeBase II – BILL PIEL

                b. Glomograms and super-trees – MICHAEL DONOGHUE

10:10       Integrating data:  TOLKIN as a model – NICO CELLINESE

10:25       Break in Ballroom 2 & 3 Foyer

10:45       Cyberinfrastructure needs:  Break-out groups

                pipelines, analysis, databasing, integrating data: 

                emphasis on DATA ASSEMBLY

12:15       Lunch Buffet in Queen Palm Courtyard

1:30         Reconvene:  reports from break-out groups

2:15         Assembling data:  overview – DOUG SOLTIS

                Break-out groups:

(1)            Molecular data for 500,000 green plants
                 a.   Role of genes common to all (rbcL, rDNA, etc.)
                 b.   Role of genomic/transcriptomic data
                 c.    Patchiness of matrix/missing data problems
                 d.   Alignment
                 e.   Other

(2)             Morphology (and other non-DNA sequence characters)
                 a.   Uses:  inclusion in matrix, ancestral state reconstruction, fossils,
                 b.   Which characters?
                 c.    Ontologies (brief discussion; see below)
                 d.   Other (ecology, biogeography)

3:30         Break in Ballroom 2 & 3 Foyer

4:00         Education, Outreach, Training – SHELDON MCKAY
                (1)        Update on APWeb 2 – PETER STEVENS, AMY ZANNE,  SHELDON MCKAY
                (2)        Report from St. Louis Genomics and Education meeting – MARTHA NARRO
                (3)        Discussion of additional outreach ideas related to the Green Plant Tree of Life (movie? Cyberinfrastructure for integrated research and teaching? CI for sharing teaching materials?)

5:00         Recap and plan for Sunday – SOLTI & DONOGHUE

6:00