[Po-dev] Plant Ontology Database #1108 Release

[Chih-Wei Tung]

Dear all,

Plant Ontology Consortium (POC, http://www.plantontology.org) is  
excited to announce the release #1108 (November 2008) of the Plant  
Ontology Database.  The release notes are available at: http:// 
www.plantontology.org/docs/release_notes/index.html

In this release, we bring you 13068 gene annotations from TAIR  
(www.arabidopsis.org), Gramene (www.gramene.org), SGN  
(www.sgn.cornell.edu) and MaizeGDB (www.maizegdb.org), 8558 QTL  
annotations from Gramene, 5904 germplasm associations from SGN and  
NASC (www.arabidopsis.info).  For genes curated by TAIR and SGN, you  
may also find links to their Gene Ontology (GO, http:// 
www.geneontology.org/) pages through PO browser at http:// 
www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi

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

To submit plant ontology term requests, we encourage researchers to  
use SourceForge PO tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? 
func=add&group_id=76834&atid=835555)

The Plant Ontology Consortium
web: http:www.plantontology.org
e-mail: po-dev at plantontology.org

The project is funded by National Science Foundation, USA, (Grant No.  
DBI-0703908)