Meeting report of the RNA ontology consortium January 8-9, 2011

This report summarizes the proceedings of the structure mapping working group meeting of the RNA Ontology Consortium (ROC), held in Kona, Hawaii on January 8-9, 2011. The ROC hosted this workshop to facilitate collaborations among those researchers formalizing con-cepts in RNA, those developing RNA-related software, and those performing genome annota-tion and standardization. The workshop included three software presentations, extended round-table discussions, and the constitution of two new working groups, the first to address the need for better software integration and the second to discuss standardization and ben-chmarking of existing RNA annotation pipelines. These working groups have subsequently pursued concrete implementation of actions suggested during the discussion. Further infor-mation about the ROC and its activities can be found at http://roc.bgsu.edu/.