January 2007 release of Plant Ontology database

[Chih-Wei Tung]

Dear Colleagues,

Plant Ontology Consortium (POC, http://www.plantontology.org) is  
proud to announce the release 0107 (January 2007) of the Plant  
Ontology Database. Details are as follows. To view these changes  
please visit the plant ontology browser available at http:// 
www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi

The new ontology files and the database dump is available for  
download. Please follow the instructions for downloading provided at  
http://plantontology.org/download/download.html#download

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Ontology updates:  10 new terms were added

PO:0009101	long lateral tassel branch
PO:0009102	short tassel branch
PO:0009103	short tassel branch meristem
PO:0009104	long lateral tassel branch meristem
PO:0009105	inflorescence lateral meristem
PO:0009106	tassel meristem
PO:0009107	tassel lateral meristem
PO:0009108	inflorescence apical meristem
PO:0009109	ear meristem
PO:0009110	ear lateral meristem

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Associations/annotations:

Total number of associations: 13811 (259 are new)
Total number of unique objects (genes & germplasms): 6852 (108 are new)

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Sincerely,
The Plant Ontology Consortium

web: http:www.plantontology.org
e-mail: po-dev at plantontology.org
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=76834&atid=835555
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