On behalf of myself and my co-PIs, I am very pleased to announce that
the Plant Ontology Consortium Web site (http://www.plantontology.org)
is now open for business. The POC is a multi-institution cooperative
effort to develop a robust and general controlled vocabulary of plant
anatomy and developmental terms. We hope that the Plant Ontology will
become as useful for describing the site and timing of genes, mutants
and traits in plants as the Gene Ontology has been for describing the
subcellular location and function of genes.
Over the next year, the web site will act as the communications hub
for this project. You will be able to review the current status of
the project, get the calendar of POC users' group meetings, browse
the developers' mailing list archives, and to search and download the
integrated Plant Ontology itself. Most importantly, from the web site
you will be able to provide feedback to the project, because it is
only from your input that we will be able to create a robust and
general ontology. Should you wish to become more involved with the
project (and you are very much encouraged to do so!), our contact
information is available at the web site.
Very truly yours,
Lincoln D. Stein
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Lincoln D. Stein
Associate Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
