Plant Ontology Database #0409 Release

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 09:46

The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is excited to announce the release #0409 (April 2009) of the Plant Ontology Database.

In this release, we bring you 26,625 gene annotations from TAIR, Gramene, SGN and MaizeGDB; 8,558 QTL annotations from Gramene; and 9,832 germplasm associations from SGN, MaizeGDB and NASC.

Many new annotations were added including 16,016 gene annotations from TAIR, 3 gene annotations from Gramene, 2 gene annotations from SGN, and 3,928 germplasm annotations from MaizeGDB.

For genes curated by TAIR and SGN, you may also find links to their Gene Ontology (GO) pages through PO browser.

The new ontology files and the database dump are available for download.

To submit plant ontology term requests, we encourage researchers to use SourceForge PO tracker.

The project is funded by National Science Foundation, USA, (Grant No. DBI-0703908)