View source for The cROP (Common Reference Ontologies for Plants) Initiative

The vision of the cROP initiative is to develop a reference set of ontologies for all plants, by analogy with, and in collaboration with, the [http://obofoundry.org OBO] (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry.

For details see [http://www.planteome.org/ Planteome] website

The first proposed set of ontologies to be developed within the cROP Initiative is as follows:

# PO*: [http://www.plantontology.org Plant Ontology]
# GO: [http://www.geneontology.org Gene Ontology]
# PRO: [http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/pro.shtml Protein Ontology]
# TO*: [http://palea.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/trait_ontology/cgi-bin/trait_amigo/go.cgi Plant Trait Ontology]
# EO*: Environment Ontology (plant treatments) [http://www.gramene.org/db/ontology/search?id=EO:0007359 browse at Gramene]
# ENVO: [http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=envo Ontology of environmental features and habitats]
# PATO: [http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=quality Phenotype Quality Ontology]
# Taxonomy: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl USDA-GRIN] / [http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=ncbi_taxonomy NCBI] / New? 
# GAZ: [http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/1397 An Ontologically-Informed Gazetteer] (geographical locations)
# Plant IDO*:  Plant Infectious Disease Ontology [http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/proceedings/ICBO2012/ICBO2012PapersSingleFiles/ICBO-2012-session1-paper01-walls.pdf]
# Plant Diseases*: [http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/Plant_Disease_Ontology List of plant diseases]
# CHEBI: [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/ dictionary of molecular entities]
# PCO: [http://code.google.com/p/popcomm-ontology/ Population and Community ontology]

For ontologies labeled *, the Planteome group may adopt their development. 

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