The Plant Ontology Database -- a resource for plant structure and developmental stages
What you can do:
View, search, & query plant ontology terms.
Highlights:
- 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.
- 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.
Keywords:
- plant genome
- plants
- plant ontology
- Arabidopsis
- rice
- maize
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This record last updated: 04-29-2008