TY - JOUR AU - Pankaj Jaiswal AU - Shulamit Avraham AU - Katica Ilic AU - Elizabeth Kellogg AU - Susan McCouch AU - Anuradha Pujar AU - Leonore Reiser AU - Seung Rhee AU - Martin Sachs AU - Mary Schaeffer AU - Lincoln Stein AU - Peter Stevens AU - Leszek Vincent AU - Doreen Ware AU - Felipe Zapata AB - The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) (www.plantontology.org) is a collaborative effort among several plant databases and experts in plant systematics, botany and genomics. A primary goal of the POC is to develop simple yet robust and extensible controlled vocabularies that accurately reflect the biology of plant structures and developmental stages. These provide a network of vocabularies linked by relationships (ontology) to facilitate queries that cut across datasets within a database or between multiple databases. The current version of the ontology integrates diverse vocabularies used to describe Arabidopsis, maize and rice (Oryza sp.) anatomy, morphology and growth stages. Using the ontology browser, over 3500 gene annotations from three species-specific databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) for Arabidopsis, Gramene for rice and MaizeGDB for maize, can now be queried and retrieved. BT - Comparative and functional genomics C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18629207?dopt=Abstract DA - 2005 IS - 7-8 J2 - Comp. Funct. Genomics LA - eng N2 - The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) (www.plantontology.org) is a collaborative effort among several plant databases and experts in plant systematics, botany and genomics. A primary goal of the POC is to develop simple yet robust and extensible controlled vocabularies that accurately reflect the biology of plant structures and developmental stages. These provide a network of vocabularies linked by relationships (ontology) to facilitate queries that cut across datasets within a database or between multiple databases. The current version of the ontology integrates diverse vocabularies used to describe Arabidopsis, maize and rice (Oryza sp.) anatomy, morphology and growth stages. Using the ontology browser, over 3500 gene annotations from three species-specific databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) for Arabidopsis, Gramene for rice and MaizeGDB for maize, can now be queried and retrieved. PY - 2005 SP - 388 EP - 97 T2 - Comparative and functional genomics TI - Plant Ontology (PO): a Controlled Vocabulary of Plant Structures and Growth Stages. VL - 6 SN - 1531-6912 ER -