TY - JOUR
KW - Databases, Genetic
KW - Genes, Plant
KW - Genome, Plant
KW - Internet
KW - Plants
KW - User-Computer Interface
KW - Vocabulary, Controlled
AU - Shulamit Avraham
AU - Chih-Wei Tung
AU - Katica Ilic
AU - Pankaj Jaiswal
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 - Felipe Zapata
AU - Doreen Ware
AB - 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.
BT - Nucleic acids research
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18194960?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2008 Jan
IS - Database issue
J2 - Nucleic Acids Res.
LA - eng
N2 - 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.
PY - 2008
SP - D449
EP - 54
T2 - Nucleic acids research
TI - The Plant Ontology Database: a community resource for plant structure and developmental stages controlled vocabulary and annotations.
VL - 36
SN - 1362-4962
ER -