Phenotype ontology research coordination network meeting report: Creating a community network for comparing and leveraging phenotype-genotype knowledge across species

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 Pheno-type 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 23 ^rd - 25 ^th of February, 2012.