From cwt6 at cornell.edu Fri Mar 9 15:21:25 2007 From: cwt6 at cornell.edu (Chih-Wei Tung) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:21:25 -0500 Subject: February 2007 Release of Plant Ontology database Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Plant Ontology Consortium (POC, http://www.plantontology.org) is excited to announce the release 0207 (February 2007) of the Plant Ontology Database. The release notes are available at: http:// www.plantontology.org/docs/release_notes/index.html In this new release, the major difference is that we introduced over 8000 rice QTL from Gramene Database (www.gramene.org) into POC, cereal researchers are encouraged to use PO terms to describe Plant Structure and Plant Growth Stages associated with their QTL of interest. One example ( PTHT, QTL for plant height ) can be found at: http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi? action=query&view=query&session_id=4865b1173468682&query=plant +height&search_constraint=gp To view other changes please visit the plant ontology browser available at http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi The new ontology files and the database dump is available for download. Please follow the instructions for downloading provided at http://plantontology.org/download/download.html#download -------------------------------------------- Ontology updates: 21 new terms were added PO:0005003 stem trichome PO:0005008 fruit septum PO:0005009 carpel septum PO:0005010 anther septum PO:0005011 anther dehiscence zone PO:0005012 pedicel vascular system PO:0005013 hypocotyl epidermis PO:0005014 embryo cortex PO:0005015 embryo endodermis PO:0005016 replum PO:0005017 flower vascular system PO:0005018 stamen vascular system PO:0005019 carpel vascular system PO:0005020 vascular bundle PO:0005021 sepal margin PO:0005022 ovary wall PO:0005023 abaxial epidermis of ovary PO:0005024 adaxial epidermis of ovary PO:0005025 middle layer of ovary wall PO:0005026 root giant cell PO:0005027 root syncytium cell -------------------------------------------- Associations/annotations: Total number of associations: 31914 (18138 are new) Total number of unique objects (genes & germplasms): 15814 (8962 are new) -------------------------------------------- Sincerely, The Plant Ontology Consortium web: http:www.plantontology.org e-mail: po-dev at plantontology.org submit requests at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=76834&atid=835555