October 2011 Release Page

Release announcements

The Plant Ontology Consortium is pleased to announce that the latest release of the Plant Ontology is now available on our AmiGO Browser (http://www.plantontology.org/).

This release features a number of exciting additions. In collaboration with MaizeGDB, we have added approximately 1.5 million new associations between Zea mays gene models and Plant Ontology terms. These associations are based on a large NimbleGen microarray data set profiling transcription patterns in 60 tissues of the inbred line B73 (Sekhon, et al, Plant Journal, 2011). The microarray data was associated with ~35,000 Maize Gene models developed from the recent sequencing of the Maize genome. More information on the data set can be found on the MaizeGDB website: http://www.maizegdb.org/cgi-bin/displayrefrecord.cgi?id=9021423

This release also features the addition of Spanish and Japanese translations of the term names (see below:).

In addition, terms with Zea or Poaceae in the name were renamed or merged with other terms, and several new terms were added to describe plant structures found in legumes.

Version #16 features a total of ~2.1 million associations contributed by 6 different collaborating groups

For more stats see the Release Notes page

Spanish Synonyms

Spanish synonyms now available for the Plant Anatomy Ontology

We are pleased to announce the addition of Spanish synonyms for all terms in the Plant Anatomy branch of the Plant Ontology. These synonyms are available on our live browser (http://plantontology.org) or to download, beginning with release #16, in October 2011.

Sinónimos en Español ya están disponibles en la Ontología de Anatomía Vegetal

Nos complace anunciar la incorporación de sinónimos en Español para todos los términos del área de Anatomía Vegetal en la Ontología de Plantas. Estos sinónimos están disponibles en nuestro navegador en vivo o pueden ser descargardos (http://plantontology.org), comenzando con el lanzamiento de la versión 16, a partir de octubre del 2011.

Japanese

Japanese synonyms now available for the Plant Anatomy Ontology

We are pleased to announce the addition of Japanese synonyms for all terms in the Plant Anatomy branch of the Plant Ontology. These synonyms are available to download from http://plantontology.org/download/download.html, beginning with release #16, in October 2011.

* Note that these synonyms are not displayed on the browser at http://www.plantontology.org, for compatibility reasons, but are in the OBO and OWL versions of the ontology file.

See this link for translated announcement: Media:Japanese translation announcement PO（YY).pdf

Summary of Changes

For more information about the release, please visit our wikipage with a Summary_of_Changes_to_PO_October_2011.

You can also view a list of New_terms_and_obsolete_terms_for_October 2011_release

How to Provide Feedback

You can send feedback via email from our Feedback link. This is available in the upper left corner of any page on the beta browser. If you have comments on a specific page or term, please include the url of the page/term you are referring to in the appropriate box of the feedback form. Be sure to include your email on the feedback form, so we can contact you with any questions.

You can also contact us at po-discuss@plantontology.org.

All comments from the feedback page go to the po-discuss mailing list. Archives of this list are available at the po-discuss archive.