After a summer of intensive development, at our recent Data Roundup we introduced curators to our new phenotype annotation software, Phenex. Phenex is an application for annotating character matrix files with ontology terms. Character states can be annotated using the Entity-Quality syntax for ontologically describing phenotypes. In addition, taxon entries can be annotated with identifiers from a taxonomy ontology. Phenex saves ontology annotations alongside traditional character matrix data using the new NeXML format standard for evolutionary data. Read the rest of this entry »
Introducing Phenex
October 30, 2008
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Report from the Phenoscape Data Roundup
October 24, 2008“…where the buffalo roam and the data are rounded up-up all day….”
A few weeks ago, from Sep 27 to Oct 1, we met in the Black Hills of South Dakota with a group of guest data curators and outside advisors to curate high priority papers, refine the curation workflow and Phenex interface, and evaluate the first prototypes for the web-based user interface to the database. Not only did the workshop end up highly productive (see below), we also had a chance to observe the annual roundup of the largest herd of buffalo in North America, swim in cold Sylvan lake, and see Mount Rushmore one evening. Read the rest of this entry »
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