Trees, Traits, and Functions: Semantics for Comparative Biology

SSB Symposium

2017 Evolution Meetings

June 23, 2017

Schedule

• 1:35 Paula Mabee - Progress in comparative biology can be accelerated through semantic annotation
• 2:05 Paul Thomas - Modeling the evolution of gene function using phylogenies and the Gene Ontology
• 2:35 Carrine Blank - Use of natural language processing algorithms, ontologies, and phylogenomic trees to automate and accelerate phenotypic trait evolutionary studies for prokaryotes
• 3:05 Break
• 3:20 ​Martin Ramirez - Tracing the evolution of complex traits: the integration of atomized morphological data on phylogenies
• 3:50 Josef Uyeda -  Can ontologies help understand trait evolution (and vice versa)?
• 4:10 Sergei Tarasov - Anatomy Ontology, Bayesian Networks and Evo-Devo suggest a new framework for modeling discrete morphological characters
• 4:30 Panel discussion