Plant Genome Resources Outreach Booth

Visit a collection of plant genomics databases and projects with resources for sequenced genomes, ontology development, genetic mapping, functional annotation of genes, mutants and phenotypes, genetic diversity and bioinformatics tools. Representatives from the projects will be present to demonstrate tools for cutting-edge genomics and genetics research and to answer questions.

Projects Represented at the Booth:

Plant Ontology Consortium: http://www.plantontology.org

• The main objective of the Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is to develop, curate and share controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth and developmental stages, providing a semantic framework for meaningful cross-species queries across databases.

• The Plant Ontology (PO) has been developed and maintained with the primary goal to facilitate and accommodate functional annotation efforts in plant databases and by the plant research community at large.

• As a part of the POC project, participating databases such as TAIR, NASC, Gramene and MaizeGDB have been using PO to describe expression patterns of genes and phenotypes of mutants and natural variants.

• The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Come see Poster # P14010: The Plant Ontology: A Database for Plant Genomics

Gramene: http://www.gramene.org/plant_ontology/

Solanaceae Genomics Network: http://solgenomics.net/

Maize Genetics and Genomics Database: http://www.maizegdb.org/

The Bio-Array Resource for Plant Functional Genomics: http://www.bar.utoronto.ca/

The Arabidopsis Information Resource: http://www.arabidopsis.org/