making it easier for databases to use the PO

[Mary Polacco]

Great.
Let me know when you do that - I will point the micro-array dudes there - I
have been in contact re the maize terms and have sent them my flat file,
attached in last email, with instructions to use AmiGO PO browser if they
couldn't find a term --  eg synonyms such as husk and kernel for a consensus
PO term -- or simply new terms not in my flat file.

Another issue about usage by databases - some folks  (or at least when they
are talking to me) think that they should be using the Zea ontology posting
for maize. Leszek and I will post a README in the CVS for the Zea ontology
indicating it is NOT the PO, but was used to develop the PO, and has maize
oriented definitions, etc etc.

m

On 1/25/05 10:38 AM, "Shuly Avraham" <shuly at cshl.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mary,
> 
> This kind of list is very easy to generate. If all you need is a flat
> list of terms organized alphabetically, I can generate the list and
> place the file on our (soon to come) FTP site.
> If there are other kinds of requsets or database queries, I can generate
> those as well.
> In addition, in the near future we will have a mysql database dump on
> the ftp site, so you can create a local copy of the database, and query
> it as you need.
> 
> Shuly.
> 
> Mary Polacco wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Is there any reason not to post a list of the PO accessions and the terms,
>> alphabetically - ie no ontology structure?
>> 
>> It makes it easier for database folks such as myself both to retrofit, and
>> use the approved terms and their the accession IDs.
>> 
>> Attached is a list - from last fall, the CVS dump of terms with accessions
>> and ontology structure, that I used to help map to MaizeGDB. Missing terms,
>> eg synonyms for husk, I mapped using the PO AmiGO browser.  It should be
>> trivial for a regular update of this sort to be dumped from the AmiGO
>> database.
>> 
>>  mary
>>  
>> 
>