Dear colleagues,
GDR will be trying to more actively incorporate ontology terms to describe
traits/QTLs and also to further develop the terms required for Rosaceae, in
collaboration with Plant Ontology Consortium (www.plantontology.org) and
gramene.
Inputs from researchers like you will be of great help for this effort, so
we'd appreciate if you can share your expertise in this effort.
Below is the excerpt from an email sent by Dr. Chih-Wei Tung, a POC curator.
"To start this collaboration, POC researchers encouraged Rosaceae
researchers to browse and search current plant ontology (
www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi), as well as trait ontology (
www.gramene.org/db/ontology/search_term?id=TO:0000387), your feedback is
very important for us to know what type of terms are missing or what types
of terms can be modified or add as synonyms to existing ontologies, these
are the information we'd really like to know from experts in Roseaceae
community. If you know of any references (books, websites, etc.) which can
helps us to understand the morphology, developmental stage, as well as
phenotypes of Rosaceae, please share with us, this will serve as a starting
point for POC curators to be familiar with these two families and facilitate
us to curate new terms when needed. Thank you so much! "
You can post your opinions in GDR mailing list (gdr-list(a)bioinfo.wsu.edu) so
that we can share and discuss the suggestion. If needed, we can make a
separate mailing list for this purpose.
Thank you,
Sook Jung
