POC poster abstract for PAG

[Sue Rhee]

Pankaj,

Looks great. Thanks for doing it. My suggestions below. By the way, the
po-dev seems to be working for me so please don't cc to my other emails. I
got the same message three times.

> Title: The Plant Ontology Consortium
>
> Authors: Lincoln Stein, Elizabeth Kellogg, Sue Rhee,  Susan McCouch,  Doreen

Seung Y. Rhee for my name

> Ware,  Peter Stevens,  Pankaj Jaiswal,  Leonore Reiser,  Peter Stevens, Leszek
> Vincent, Mary Polacco, Marty Sachs, Filipe Zapata, Shuly Avraham.
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> The goals of the Plant Ontology Consortium are to develop a common set of
> controlled vocabulary terms to describe anatomic and developmental stage terms

anatomical rather than anatomic?

> in both experimental and agronomically important plants.  We have started with

experimentally rather than experimental

remove 'have' in have started

> Arabidopsis and cereals such as rice and maize, and later extend this ontology

replace 'later extend' with 'plan on extending'

> to encompass legumes, Solanaceae, and other plant families.  Concurrently, these
> terms will be applied to the task of describing the genes and mutants that are

remove 'the task of'

> contained within the plant specific databases maintained by the participating

remove 'specific'

> institutions, thereby simultaneously refining the ontologies, and providing
> points of reference with which to compare the genes and mutants across these
> species. The broader impact of this project is that it will provide a framework
> of plant development to allow researchers to make meaningful cross database

cross-database

> queries across the various species specific resources such as Gramene, TAIR,

species-specific

> MaizeGDB, PlantGDB, etc. in order to discover patterns of similarities and

I thought Gramene and PlantGDB were NOT species-specific. Also, it would
be nice to add URLs to these databases you are referring to.

> dissimilarities involved in plant development. For example, researchers will be
> able to obtain a definitive list of genes whose action affects plant stem
> development.  The development and implementation of plant ontology will allow
> the fruits of research in one plant species to be more easily used in the study
> of other species, leading to a greater understanding of plant biology.
> The project is supported by National Science Foundation grant No. 0321666 to the
> Plant Ontology Consortium.
>
>
>

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