Plant Ontology (PO) Consortium is happy to announce the release #0408
of the PO database! http://www.plantontology.org.
For detailed release notes, please visit
http://www.plantontology.org/docs/release_notes/index.html
* Ontology
- 1128 PO terms [19 NEW]
- 58117 annotations [18572 NEW]
* Ontology and annotation browser (http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/
go.cgi)
- NEW: Added ~16000 annotations on genes and mutant phenotype germplasm
from tomato, tobacco, potato, eggplant, pepper and Hyoscyamus.
These annotations are contributed by Solanaceae Genomics
Network (SGN; http://sgn.cornell.edu/)
- Updated and added new annotations contributed by TAIR
(for Arabidopsis) and Gramene (for rice) databases.
* Publication
- The Plant Ontology Database: a community resource for plant
structure and developmental stages controlled vocabulary and
annotations. Avraham et al. Nucleic Acids Research 2008
36:D449-D454;
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/suppl_1/D449
* Ontology requests
- We encourage researchers to submit ontology requests at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=76834&atid=835555
* Collaborators
- We welcome our new collaborators:
Dennis Stevenson: NY Botanical Graden
Maria A. Gandolfo: Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University
Bioversity International: http://www.bioversityinternational.org
Generation Challenge Programme (GCP): http://www.generationcp.org
The Plant Ontology Consortium
web: http:www.plantontology.org
e-mail: po-dev at plantontology.org
The project is funded by National Science Foundation, USA, (Grant No.
DBI-0703908)
Dear Rosaceae GGB community,
Congratulations to EIGHT new RosEXEC members joining in 2008:
U.S. RosEXEC members
Nahla Bassil (USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, OR)
Chris Dardick (USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV)
Amit Dhingra (Washington State University, Pullman, WA)
Jim Luby (University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN)
Gayle Volk (USDA-ARS, National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, Fort Collins, CO)
These five people will serve three-year terms.
RosEXEC International Liaisons
Jasper Rees (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Dan Sargent (East Malling Research, United Kingdom)
Eric van de Weg (Plant Research International, Netherlands)
Note that although only two slots were offered for International Liaison,election results were so close for the three candidates above that we invite all three to join RosEXEC, to serve two-year terms.
With the addition of these new members, we anticipate that the current momentum in U.S.-wide and international coordination and synergy will be maintained and ramped up even further. We appreciate the enthusiastic efforts over the last three years of our 2008 outgoing members, and look forward to their continued involvement in our community. New initiatives such as the RosCAP proposal submitted in February 2008 demonstrate the high level of cooperation we are experiencing in this community, resulting from strategic efforts led by RosEXEC over the last several years. This has been and will be possible only with interest and efforts from all of you.
Vote counts were very close, and it is encouraging to realise that we have so many good people willing to devote their time to the objectives of RosEXEC. You don't have to be a member of RosEXEC to make a valuable contribution to furthering the ideals of our community.
Within RosEXEC, the Secretary for 2008 will be elected in the next week or so.
Congratulations again to our new RosEXEC members for 2008.
RosEXEC Membership Committee
Dear Rosaceae GGB community,
Only one day left for voting for five new U.S. RosEXEC members and two RosEXEC international liaisons. Polls close 5:00 pm PST (Friday April 4). Anyone that is U.S.-based and interested in genomics, genetics, and/or breeding of rosaceous crops is eligible to vote. Conceivably, this includes about 200 million people, but it at least includes industry personnel, educators, extension agents, administrators, students, and avid consumers, in addition to the 25 mostly genomicists, geneticists, and breeders who have already voted.
So if you have not yet expressed your preferences, please hop on to www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/gdr/gdr_rosexec_membership_2008_vote_form.cgi <https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.bioinfo.wsu.ed…> and vote! Please also direct your Rosaceae GGB colleagues to this site (and encourage them to also sign up for the GDR mailing list if they aren't already on it).
Across the country, we all have a voice in future directions of the U.S. Rosaceae genomics, genetics, and breeding initiative. Currently, only one vote separates U.S. candidates running 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. Only one vote also separates 1st, 2nd, and 3rd positions for international liaison candidates. Each new vote WILL COUNT!
The RosEXEC Membership Committee
Dear Rosaceous Genomics Community members.
During the recent Rosaceous Genomics Conference in Chile, it was decided
that there should be a coordinated community effort towards comparative
mapping, and that we should set up an international working group to
attempt to meet these aims. I volunteered to act as interim chair of
this working group whilst it is established and therefore I am currently
drawing up a list of people from the community with an interest in
comparative mapping and transferable markers with whom I will
communicate over the coming weeks.
I have already identified a number of people within the community who
are working on topics related to comparative mapping, but I want to be
as inclusive as possible, so if you have a wish to be a part of any
correspondence relating to this working group and/or want to be involved
in this community effort, then please could you email me at
dan.sargent(a)emr.ac.uk? Once I have a list of interested people, I will
be contacting you further. Ideally I would like to have responses from
interested parties by the end of next week (11th April 2008) so that I
can get some kind of GDR mailing list sorted out etc.
I will look forward to hearing from you all in the near future,
All the best
Dan Sargent
Dr Daniel James Sargent
East Malling Research
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