From katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU  Tue Jan  6 20:26:39 2004
From: katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU (Katica Ilic)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:26:39 -0800
Subject: Fw: Plant Ontology Consortium Web Site Open
Message-ID: <009e01c3d4bd$4cb873d0$3df842ab@UTE>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lincoln Stein" <lstein at cshl.edu>
To: "Katica Ilic" <katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:50 PM
Subject: Plant Ontology Consortium Web Site Open


> On behalf of myself and my co-PIs, I am very pleased to announce that 
> the Plant Ontology Consortium Web site (http://www.plantontology.org) 
> is now open for business.  The POC is a multi-institution cooperative 
> effort to develop a robust and general controlled vocabulary of plant 
> anatomy and developmental terms.  We hope that the Plant Ontology 
> will become as useful for describing the site and timing of genes, 
> mutants and traits in plants as the Gene Ontology has been for 
> describing the subcellular location and function of genes.
> 
> Over the next year, the web site will act as the communications hub 
> for this project.  You will be able to review the current status of 
> the project, get the calendar of POC users' group meetings, browse 
> the developers' mailing list archives, and to search and download the 
> integrated Plant Ontology itself.  Most importantly, from the web 
> site you will be able to provide feedback to the project, because it 
> is only from your input that we will be able to create a robust and 
> general ontology.  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 web site.
> 
> Very truly yours,
> 
> 
> Lincoln D. Stein
> 
> -- 
> Lincoln D. Stein
> Associate Professor
> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
> 1 Bungtown Road
> Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
>