FW: Compositae vocabulary

[katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU]

Dear Kent,

I apologize for inexcusable delay in responding to your messages to 
po at plantontology.org. All your emails got caught in our spam filter. We 
will certainly try to do our best to prevent this from happening again.

As Leszek already mentioned, it would help if you could send us the list 
of the characteristics/characters that you have recorded. This would help 
us understand the scope of the request. We would work together with you on 
incorporating botanical terms specific for Compositae in the PSO. If an 
extensive changes need to be done to PO to accommodate all updates, it 
would probably take several rounds of dialogs, and may involve 
taxonomists-experts for the Compositae family.

A good way to start is to learn more about phenotypic data that you have 
and to review few examples of phenotype description, and also a list of 
controlled vocabulary terms that you would like to see in the PO.

Best regards,

Katica Ilic, POC Project Coordinator


On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, KENT BRADFORD wrote:

> I am trying the email that was published in Jaiswal et al (2005) in an
> attempt to make contact regarding the questions below.
> Kent Bradford
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: KENT BRADFORD
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:10 PM
> To: 'po at plantontology.org'
> Subject: RE: Compositae vocabulary
>
> I am trying again to obtain a response from the plant ontology group.
> Kent Bradford
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: KENT BRADFORD
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:13 PM
> To: 'po at plantontology.org'
> Subject: RE: Compositae vocabulary
>
> I did not get any response to the message below. Is this address listed
> on the Plant Ontology website viable?
> Kent Bradford
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: KENT BRADFORD
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:33 PM
> To: 'po at plantontology.org'
> Subject: Compositae vocabulary
>
> To Whom It May Concern:
> I am a Co-PI on the Compositae Genome Project that has been developing
> EST and mapping resources for the Compositae, primarily lettuce and
> sunflower but now expanding into 15 additional species
> (http://cgpdb.ucdavis.edu). As part of this project, we have also
> collected extensive phenotypic data on several hundred accessions in the
> Compositae. We are in the process of developing a database to compile
> and store this data and make it accessible via our website. In
> describing our phenotypic data, we would like to be compatible with your
> controlled vocabularies in choosing our terms. However, you note on your
> website that these vocabularies are not yet available for the
> Compositae, and we have many types of data that I do not see in the
> current descriptions, (e.g., specific leaf shapes, rosettes, presence of
> trichomes, inflorescence branching patterns, etc.). I would appreciate
> your advice on how we should proceed in a way that will remain
> consistent the goals of the plant ontology project to allow broad and
> consistent searching on controlled vocabularies. Is anyone working on a
> list of terms for the Compositae that we could work from? I can send a
> list of the characteristics that we have recorded if it would help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kent Bradford
>
> Kent J. Bradford
> Professor
> Department of Plant Sciences
> Mail Stop 5
> One Shields Ave.
> University of California
> Davis, CA 95616-8780
> Phone: 1-530-752-6087
> Fax: 1-530-754-7222
> Email: kjbradford at ucdavis.edu
>
>
>
>

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