[Fwd: First release of the Growth and Developmental Stages Ontology]

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

This is a forwarded message from The Plant Ontology Consortium mailing list.

Thanks
Pankaj


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Subject: First release of the Growth and Developmental Stages Ontology
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:04:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Katica Ilic <katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: po at plantontology.org
To: po-announce at plantontology.org


First release of the Growth and Developmental Stages Ontology

We are pleased to announce the first release of controlled vocabulary 
terms describing the whole plant growth stages of a 'generic' flowering 
plant. This aspect of the Plant Ontology encompasses Arabidopsis, 
soybean, maize rice and Triticaceae. The new release also includes over 
400 gene annotations from two participating databases, Gramene and TAIR. 
The updated version of Plant Ontology can be viewed and queried using 
our ontology browser, the Plant Ontology AmiGO  (URL: 
http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi).

An additional set of controlled vocabulary terms describing plant organ 
developmental stages is currently being developed by POC, with 
anticipated release date during this summer.

We hope that Plant Ontology is becoming a useful tool for the plant 
research community, and that diverse groups including plant breeders, 
geneticists and researchers involved in large scale genomics projects 
will benefit from using this resource.

Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions and requests for 
new terms in the Plant Ontology.


Best regards,

Plant Ontology Consortium

E-mail: po at plantontology.org
http://www.plantontology.org