Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, Database issue D449-D454
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The Plant Ontology Database: a community resource for plant structure and developmental stages controlled vocabulary and annotations
1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, 2Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, 240 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, 3Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, 4Department of Biology, University of Missouri at St. Louis, St Louis, MO 63121, 5Molecular Sciences Institute, 2168 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704, 6Maize Genetics Cooperation, Stock Center, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, 7Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Washington, DC 20250, 8Curtis Hall, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 and 9Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344-Shaw Boulevard, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Received September 12, 2007. Revised October 5, 2007. Accepted October 6, 2007.
The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC, http://www.plantontology.org) is a collaborative effort among model plant genome databases and plant researchers that aims to create, maintain and facilitate the use of a controlled vocabulary (ontology) for plants. The ontology allows users to ascribe attributes of plant structure (anatomy and morphology) and developmental stages to data types, such as genes and phenotypes, to provide a semantic framework to make meaningful cross-species and database comparisons. The POC builds upon groundbreaking work by the Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC) by adopting and extending the GOC's principles, existing software and database structure. Over the past year, POC has added hundreds of ontology terms to associate with thousands of genes and gene products from Arabidopsis, rice and maize, which are available through a newly updated web-based browser (http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi) for viewing, searching and querying. The Consortium has also implemented new functionalities to facilitate the application of PO in genomic research and updated the website to keep the contents current. In this report, we present a brief description of resources available from the website, changes to the interfaces, data updates, community activities and future enhancement.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.
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