Unique identifiers assigned to Plant Ontology developer groups

[Mary Polacco]

Pankaj,
Is there an easy way to get a table of the terms and their POC identifiers
other than writing a parser for the flat file that shows also the heirarchy?

-mary

On 11/4/03 6:15 PM, "Pankaj Jaiswal" <pj37 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Unique identifiers assigned to Plant Ontology developer groups
> 
> Every term in the anatomy or developmental stage ontology is identified by a
> unique identifier. Under the conventions that we have already established, the
> syntax of a PO identifier is PO:nnnnnnn, where nnnnnnn is a zero-padded unique
> integer of seven digits.
> 
> In order to ensure database integrity, identifiers are never removed. Terms
> that 
> are retired(deleted) from the ontology are moved into the obsolete category.
> To 
> ensure that the same identifier is not used twice, each participating group
> will 
> be assigned non-overlapping ID ranges and listed on this page for
> documentation 
> purposes. These ranges will automatically act as (internal) identifiers for
> the 
> group that submitted the term. If you want the identifiers assigned to your
> group, please send and e mail to po-dev at plantontology.org
> 
> Group      identifier range (from-to)
> TAIR     0000001-0005000
> Gramene     0005001-0010000
> IRRI     0010001-0015000
> MaizeDB     0015001-0020000-->Change group name to MaizeGDB
> 
> For the above 4 groups, the range was assigned prior to the award of this
> project http://www.plantontology.org/doc/poc_project.html
> 
> Toby Kellogg     0020001-0025000
> Open     0025001-0030000
> Open     0030001-0035000
> Open     0035001-0040000
> Open     0040001-0045000
> Open     0045001-0050000
> Open     0050001-0055000
> 
> Setting your range of numbers within DAG-Edit.
> 
> Once you have claimed a set of numbers from the ontology numbers file, you
> must 
> also set these numbers within the configuration file of DAG-Edit. To do this
> you 
> should open DAG-Edit, and chose from the 'plugins' menu the 'DAG-Edit
> Configuration Manager'. Within this window you can now fill in your range of
> numbers, starting in the 'start of id range' line and finishing in the 'End of
> id range' line. Press 'Save Configuration' to save your changes.
> 
> In order to avoid conflicts, any new term contributed by the group should
> carry 
> the Ontology term identifier from the assigned range.
> 
> 
> 
> It is also an easy way to track the contribution.
> 
> 
> Pankaj
> 
>