Plant Ontology (PO): a Controlled Vocabulary of Plant Structures and Growth Stages

Jaiswal, P., Avraham, S., Ilic, K., Kellogg, E. A., McCouch, S., Pujar, A., Reiser, L., Rhee, S. Y., Sachs, M. M., Schaeffer, M., Stein, L., Stevens, P., Vincent, L. D., Ware, D. H., Zapata, F. (2005) Plant Ontology (PO): a Controlled Vocabulary of Plant Structures and Growth Stages. Comp Funct Genomics, 6 (7-8). pp. 388-97. ISSN 1531-6912 (Print)

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URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18629207
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.496

Abstract

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.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases > database optimization
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > Mapping and Rendering
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > Mapping and Rendering > ontology
organism description > plant
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Communities: CSHL labs > Stein lab
CSHL labs > Ware lab
Depositing User: CSHL Librarian
Date: 2005
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2012 16:54
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2017 19:51
PMCID: PMC2447502
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22608

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