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@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