Plant Ontology Consortium

News Archive

Plant Genomes & Biotechnology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Nov. 30th- Dec. 3rd, 2011

Presentation: "Using the Plant Ontology to improve the interoperability of genomic and phenomic data sets" (Ramona Walls).

12th Genomic Standard Consortium Meeting, Sept. 28th-30th, 2011

Barry Smith present the PO and Environment Ontology (EnvO) at GSC 2011
2011 CGRB Fall Conference, September 18th-19th, 2011

Two posters related to the Plant Ontology were presented at the 2011 CGRB Fall Conference at Oregon State University.

"Expanding the Plant Ontology: Linking Plant Anatomy and Development to Genomics Across Plant Taxa" (LC, RW, JE, JP, BS, CM, SR, MH, PS, DL, MAG, DWS, PJ)

"Planteome Annotation Wiki: A Semantic Application for the Community Curation of Plant Genotypes and Phenotypes" (JP, JE and PJ)

Plant Biology 2011, Aug 6-10th, 2011

Come see us at Plant Biology 2011 in Minneapolis, Minn.
Plant Ontology and Gramene are hosting a Data Curation Workshop
See also our PO poster.
And visit us at the Plant Genome Resources Outreach Booth in the exhibit hall.
ICBO 2011, July 26th-30th, 2011

The PO will attend the Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in Buffalo, New York.
See our presentation on Thursday, July 28th, 3:40pm in the session: "Introduction to The OBO Foundry Initiative"

The PO is co-organizing the workshop: "From Fins to Limbs to Leaves: Facilitating Anatomy Ontology Interoperability"

IBC 2011, July 23rd-30th, 2011

The PO is organizing a symposium at International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia
For more information: please see: Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences
Phenotype Ontology RCN-Plant Working Group Meeting, June 1-3, 2011

The Plant Ontology attended the Plant Working Group Meeting of the Phenotype Ontology RCN at the Google Campus in Boulder, CO.
All four (Plants, Arthropoda, Vertebrates and Bioinformatics) Working Group sessions ran concurrently to maximize the benefits of emerging results, group experiences and collective synergy.

Semantic Web Workshop, June 6-7, 2011, Santa Fe, NM.

The Plant Ontology was represented at the 2011 Semantic Web Workshop. Hosted by Damian Gessler and the iPlant Collaborative, this two-day workshop focused on biological applications for semantic web services.
May 27, 2011
The latest release (Version #15) of the Plant Ontology is now available on our Ontology Browser.

This release contains more than 80 new terms to accommodate pteridophytes and bryophytes. In addition, many existing terms have been modified to make them applicable to all plants.

For more details on the changes made to the ontology, please visit: Summary of Changes.

The Plant Ontology is now on FaceBook!

Come visit the Plant Ontology on FaceBook. Follow the latest updates and news.

February 25-27, 2011

The Plant Ontology attended the inaugural meeting of the newly-funded Phenotype Ontology RCN at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC. The Phenotype Ontology RCN was funded by NSF to establish a network of scientists who are interested in phenotype ontologies.
Jan 21, 2011
The latest release (Version #14) of the Plant Ontology is now available on our Ontology Browser.
This release is aimed at restructuring the PO to accommodate all plants.
For more information about the release and details on the changes made to the ontology, please visit: Summary of Changes.

January 15-19, 2011
The Plant Ontology attended the Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference, in San Diego, CA. and hosted a Collaborators Workshop on Sunday Jan.16th.
Also, we presented in the: Plant Phenotypes Workshop and at the Computer Demonstration and also presented a poster.

Oct 10, 2010
Release (Version #1010) of the Plant Ontology is now available on our Ontology Browser. This release is aimed at restructuring the PO to accommodate all plants.
For more information about the release and details on the changes made to the ontology, please visit: Summary of Changes.
Aug 12, 2010
Beta Version of New Release of Plant Ontology Database Now Available

A beta version of the latest release of the PO is now available on our AmiGO Browser . The POC is seeking feedback on the beta release. Please use the Feedback Link or contact us at po-discuss@plantontology.org.

For more information, please visit Summary of Changes.

PO-Gramene Annotation Workshop at Plant Biology 2010
A workshop to demonstrate the Phenote Annotation Tool was held at the ASPB Plant Biology Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. You can find a link to the workshop page at: Phenote Workshop (you may need to login)

Plant Ontology represented at Outreach Booth at Plant Biology 2010
The Plant Ontology organized an Outreach Booth at the ASPB Plant Biology 2010 Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Along with the PO were Gramene, MaizeGDB , SGN, TAIR and BAR . Many people stopped by to ask questions and learn about the Resources available for Plant Genomics.

April 28, 2010
OBO files for Flowering Plants on the download page have been updated to version 1.2 of the OBO spec. No changes to terms have been made.

June 17, 2010
Accepting applications for Plant Ontology and Gramene's Gene Annotation Workshop on July 31, 2010.
July 31-Aug 4th, 2010
ASPB Plant Biology 2010, Montreal, Canada

July 31-Aug 4th, 2010
BSA Botany 2010, Providence, RI

July 18-22, 2009
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
Honolulu, Hawaii. USA

June 30-July 4, 2009
20th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research
Edinburgh, Scotland

May 20, 2009
Plant Ontology cross-references to UniProt keywords mapped

February 24, 2009
Project received new funding from the "The Plant Ontology" National Science Foundation!

April 7 2008
iPlant collaborative announces its invitation to the plant biology community

Jan 12 2008
POC poster presentation at PAG XVI, San Diego, Jan 12-16, 2008

Jan 2008
The Plant Ontology Database is in Nucleic Acid Research 2008 DB issue

July 8, 2007
POC Presentation at ASPB meeting, Chicago, July 7-11, 2007

June 10, 2007
RCN Plant and Trait Ontology workshop at CSHL, NY, January 10-11, 2007.

Jan 25, 2007
Publication: Plant Structure Ontology. Unified Vocabulary of Anatomy and Morphology of a Flowering Plant. Ilic et al (2007).

Jan 10, 2007
POC Poster Presentation at PAG meeting, San Diego, January 13-17.

Aug 11, 2006
Publication: Whole-plant growth stage ontology for angiosperms and its application in plant biology. Pujar et al (2006).

Feb 20, 2006
Publication: Plant Ontology (PO): a controlled vocabulary of plant structures and growth stages. Jaiswal et al (2005).

July 29, 2005
First release of the Plant Structure Development Stages Ontology!
A set of controlled vocabulary terms describing developmental stages of organs and organ systems of a 'generic' flowering plant is now available.

June 20, 2005
Plant Ontologies have been presented at the following meetings this summer:

TAIR workshop at the 16th Int. Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison WI, June 18.

The Eighth Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting at the ISMB 2005, Detroit, MI, June 24.

The XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July 17-23.

April 28, 2005
First release of the Plant Growth Stages Ontology!
A set of controlled vocabulary terms describing the whole plant growth stages of a 'generic' flowering plant is now available. This release encompasses Arabidopsis, soybean, maize, rice and Triticeae. Over 400 gene annotations to the new terms are also added to the POC database.

January 18, 2005
Second annual Plant Ontology Consortium meeting will take place at the Plant and Animal Genomes XIII Conference, San Diego, CA. View the Agenda

January 17, 2005
An NSF sponsored Training Workshop, Development and Implemention of Ontologies in the Database will be held on Monday, Jan 17 (12:50-3:00 pm), at the PAG XIII Conference, San Diego, CA (Royal Palm Salon 1, 2 & 3).

Dec 16, 2004
Gene annotations for Arabidopsis, rice and maize associated to the Plant Structure Ontology terms are now available. Over 3,000 gene annotations from three species-specific databases, TAIR, Gramene and MaizeGDB, can now be queried and retrieved using our ontology browser, the Plant Ontology AmiGO.

July 23, 2004
The Plant Structure Ontology is now available at the POC web site! This ontology is the first step in our effort to integrate existing species-specific vocabularies into unified ontology of flowering plants.

July 10, 2004
First Plant Ontology Workshop will take place at the Plant Biology 2004, Lake Buena Vista, FL, on Tuesday, July 27, 12:30-2:00 pm (Yucatan 1-3).

June 15, 2004
Monsanto has contributed their controlled vocabularies for Arabidopsis and maize anatomy and developmental stages to POC.

May 15, 2004
Plant ontology will be presented at the upcoming meetings:
Plant Biology 2004, July 24 - 28 (abstract # 864).
Botany 2004, July 31 - August 5 (abstract #347 and #351).

March 05, 2004
Pioneer Hi-Bred has contributed their controlled vocabulary for maize anatomy to POC. The vocabulary can be viewed/downloaded from the POC CVS repository.

January 9-14 2004
POC is announced at 2004 Plant and Animal Genomes XII Conference.

January 11 2004
First consortium meeting at 2004 Plant and Animal Genomes XII Conference

January 9 2004
POC web site goes live.

December 8-9 2003
First POC developers meeting at Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis.

Oct 2003
The project received a $1,672,411 NSF plant genome reserach award #0321666 for three years (2003-2006).

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