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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To Whom It May Concern:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am a Co-PI on the Compositae Genome Project that has been developing EST and mapping resources for the Compositae, p</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">rimarily lettuce and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">sunflower</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but now expanding into 15 additional species (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://cgpdb.ucdavis.edu"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://cgpdb.ucdavis.edu</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As part of this project, we have also collected extensive</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">phenotypic data on</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">everal hundre</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">d</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">accessions</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">i</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">n the Compositae. We are in the process of developing a database to compile and store this data and make it accessible</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">via our website.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">describing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">our phenotypic data, we would like to be compatible with your controlled vocabularies in choosing our terms. However, you note o</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">n 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</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> patterns, etc.).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">would</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">appreciate your advice on how we</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">h</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ould proceed in a way that will remain consistent</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> the goals of the plant ontology project to allow broad and consistent searching on controlled vocabularies.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is anyone working on a list of terms for the Compositae that we could work from?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I can send a list of the character</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">i</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tics</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> that we have</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">recorded if it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">would</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">help.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sincerely,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kent Bradford</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kent J. Bradford</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Email: k</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">jbradford@ucdavis.edu</FONT></SPAN></P>
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