Open AccessPlant Ontology (PO): a controlled vocabulary of plant structures and growth stages
Author(s) -
Jaiswal Pankaj,
Avraham Shulamit,
Ilic Katica,
Kellogg Elizabeth A,
McCouch Susan,
Pujar Anuradha,
Reiser Leonore,
Rhee Seung Y,
Sachs Martin M.,
Schaeffer Mary,
Stein Lincoln,
Stevens Peter,
Vincent Leszek,
Ware Doreen,
Zapata Felipe
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
comparative and functional genomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1532-6268
pISSN - 1531-6912
DOI - 10.1002/cfg.496
Subject(s) - ontology , gene ontology , controlled vocabulary , arabidopsis , vocabulary , computer science , phenomics , resource (disambiguation) , biological database , genomics , data science , biology , information retrieval , world wide web , genome , bioinformatics , gene , computer network , philosophy , gene expression , biochemistry , linguistics , epistemology , mutant
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. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.