Abstract
Representing phenotype in a way that can be linked to thousands of molecular genetic and environmental databases is an unresolved research challenge. A recent meeting of the Phenotype Research Coordination Network (RCN) aimed to coordinate and leverage current efforts. The three day summit meeting was hosted by NESCent (The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) in Durham, North Carolina on the 23rd – 25th of February, 2012.
Highlights
Knowing how an organism looks, behaves and functions, i.e., its ‘phenotype’, is central to interpreting the interaction of underlying genes and environmental effects
The three day summit meeting was hosted by NESCent (The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) in Durham, North Carolina on the 23rd – 25th of February, 2012
The goal of the Phenotype Research Coordination Network (RCN) is to establish a network of experts, drawn from plant, animal, and other research communities, who are independently developing ways to represent phenotypic data and facilitate coordination across these multiple efforts
Summary
Knowing how an organism looks, behaves and functions, i.e., its ‘phenotype’, is central to interpreting the interaction of underlying genes and environmental effects. The goal of the Phenotype RCN is to establish a network of experts, drawn from plant, animal, and other research communities, who are independently developing ways to represent phenotypic data and facilitate coordination across these multiple efforts. The Phenotype RCN fosters interactions among researchers by providing introductions, opening up new channels of communication, holding meetings, providing educational opportunities, supporting collaborative exchanges, and coordinating activities all aimed at advancing the field by: (1) developing standards and best practices for accurate phenotype representations; (2) building key reference ontologies for plants, vertebrates, and arthropods; and (3) cross referencing these ontologies so that key data can be accessed and shared
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