From katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU Fri Jul 29 17:13:54 2005 From: katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU (katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: First release of the Plant Structure Development Stages Ontology Message-ID: The Plant Ontology Consortium (www.plantontology.org) is pleased to announce the first release of the Developmental Ontology for flowering plants. This ontology is a set of controlled vocabulary ("ontology") terms that describe the developmental stages of organs and organ systems of a 'generic' flowering plant. The Developmental Ontology supplements previously-released ontologies that describe anatomy, morphology, and growth stages of a plant, and is designed for use by plant databases and researchers to describe the effects of genes, mutations and environmental permutations on plant structure and growth using a standardized terminology. The updated version of the Plant Ontology, which includes the newly-released Developmental Ontology, can be viewed and queried using the Plant Ontology AmiGO browser (URL: http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/). We hope that Plant Ontology will become 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------