From katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU Fri Jul 23 01:56:01 2004 From: katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU (Katica Ilic) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: First release of the Plant Structure Ontology Message-ID: 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katica Ilic katica at acoma.stanford.edu The Arabidopsis Information Resource Tel: (650) 325-1521 ext. 253 Carnegie Institution of Washington FAX: (650) 325-6857 Department of Plant Biology URL: http://arabidopsis.org/ 260 Panama St. Stanford, CA 94305 U.S.A. --------------------------------------------------------------------------