[Fwd: First release of the Plant Structure Ontology]

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Hi Everyone,

This is a forwarded message from Plant Ontology Consortium. They have 
released the first public version of the Plant Structure Ontology.

Many thanks

Pankaj

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Subject: First release of the Plant Structure Ontology
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:21:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Katica Ilic <katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: gramene at gramene.org, Katica Ilic <katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU>
To: gramene at gramene.org


First release of the Plant Structure Ontology

We are very pleased to announce the first release of the Plant Structure
Ontology - a set of controlled vocabulary terms describing the anatomy and
morphology of a 'generic' flowering plant. This ontology is the first step
in our effort to integrate species-specific vocabulary terms into unified
flowering-plant ontologies to describe structure and developmental stages
of rice, maize, Arabidopsis and other angiosperms. We hope that the Plant
Ontology will become a useful tool for efficient description of gene
expression patterns and phenotypes in model plants and agronomically
important crop species.

Our goal is to actively involve plant researchers, breeders, and
systematists in development and application of plant vocabularies. Should
you wish to become more involved with the project (and you are very much
encouraged to do so!), our contact information is available at the POC web
site (http://www.plantontology.org).

Best regards,

Plant Ontology Consortium

E-mail: po at plantontology.org

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