POC poster abstract for PAG

[Lincoln Stein]

> Authors: Lincoln Stein, Elizabeth Kellogg, Sue Rhee,  Susan McCouch, 
> Doreen Ware,  Pankaj Jaiswal,  Peter Stevens, Leonore Reiser,  Leszek
> Vincent, Mary Polacco, Marty Sachs, Filipe Zapata, Shuly Avraham.
>
> The goals of the Plant Ontology Consortium are to develop a common set of

controlled vocabulary (ontology) terms to describe anatomic and developmental 
stage

> terms in both experimental and agronomically important plants.  

Our first year goal is to create a unified vocabulary for the Arabidopsis 
dicot and the rice and maize monocots.  In later years we will extend this 
controlled vocabulary

>  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 contained within the plant
> specific databases maintained by the participating institutions, thereby
> simultaneously refining the ontologies, and providing points of reference
                                         ^vocabularies

> 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 queries
> across the various species specific resources such as Gramene, TAIR,
> MaizeGDB, PlantGDB, etc. in order to discover patterns of similarities and
> dissimilarities involved in plant development. For example, researchers
> will be able to obtain a definitive list of genes whose action affects

a list of known genes whose action affects

> plant stem development.  The development and implementation of plant

plant stem development, under a consistent and unified definition of the term 
"plant stem development."  The development and implementation of the 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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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein at cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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