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Plant Ontology (PO)The main objective of the Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is to develop, curate and share controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth and developmental stages, providing a semantic framework for meaningful cross-species queries across databases. The Plant Ontology (PO) has been developed and maintained with the primary goal to facilitate and accommodate functional annotation efforts in plant databases and by the plant research community at large. The initial releases of the PO integrated existing ontologies for Arabidopsis, maize and rice; more recent versions of the ontology encompass terms relevant to Fabaceae, Solanaceae and other cereal crops. As a part of the POC project, participating databases such as TAIR, NASC, Gramene and MaizeGDB have been using PO to describe expression patterns of genes and phenotypes of mutants and natural variants. The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Plant ontology is not an extensive collection of botanical terms, but rather a complex hierarchical structure in which botanical concepts are described by their meaning and by relationship to each other. The main purpose of these vocabularies is to facilitate cross database querying and to foster consistent use of these vocabularies in the annotation of tissue and/or growth stage specific expression of genes, proteins and phenotypes. Educational aspect of the plant ontology is to some extent limited; this is imposed by the structure of the ontology itself and the limitations of the current software.
Participants and ContributorsThe Plant Ontology Consortium core members are Gramene database, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), MaizeGDB, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis MO. POC collaborators are International rice informations System (IRIS), MIPS database, Oryzabase, Open Biological Ontologies project (OBO), Gene Ontology Consortium (GO), Deep Gene project and Solanaceae Genomics Network. |
What's New...!New award to "The
Plant Ontology" by the National Science Foundation! Plant Ontology cross-references to UniProt ! June 30-July 4, 2009 July18-22, 2009 Oct 25-29, 2009 Nov 1-5, 2009 Nov 16-19, 2009 Release notesFind the most recent
information on the database and website changes by visiting the release notes page.
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Acknowledgements
We kindly acknowledge Michael Ashburner (FlyBase, EBI, UK) and the Gene Ontology Consortium
We kindly acknowledge all contributors who have reviewed Plant Ontologies (list of reviewers).
- This project is currently funded (2006-2008) by NSF to Gramene database (Grant No. 0321685).
- New grant to " The Plant Ontology" by NSF is awarded (Grant No. 0822201) in Febrary, 2009.
This work was initially supported (2003-2005) by the National Science Foundation award (Grant No. 0321666) to the Plant Ontology Consortium.
The project was also supported by USDA CREES grant 00-52100-9622 and USDA ARS Specific Cooperative Agreement grant 58-1907-0-041 to Gramene database. National Science Foundation, (Grant No. DBI-9978564) to TAIR which is a collaboration between the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, California, and the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR).
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