Plant Ontology Consortium is happy to announce the release #0907 of PO database! http://www.plantontology.org

* Ontology update - 1109 PO terms - 32104 annotations visit http://www.plantontology.org/docs/release_notes/index.html for more details

* New version of PO browser (http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/go.cgi) - New interface - New users guide - New tutorials - New feature: added "GO" (Gene Ontology) associations link to Arabidopsis genes

* POC Website updates (http://www.plantontology.org/) - added "Request PO terms" feature on navigation menu - added "POC Outreach Activities" link in "Documentation" page - Updated "Mail Archives" - Updated "PO website usage statistics" - Updated "Tutorials"

* POC and plant community - Welcome experts from Medicago, Populus, Rosaceae, Solanaceae, Vitis fields to join plant ontology development Please email to po-dev@plantontology.org or subscribe po-dev mailing list

- Phenote (a phenotype annotation tool using ontologies http:// www.phenote.org/) has added "plant" configuration, plus PO and other plant related ontologies for curation. Contact Nicole Washington ( NLWashington@lbl.gov ) for more information about downloading and using Phenote tool

- Meet POC members in international conferences @ 8th Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) workshop, Rome, Italy Sep 21-22 @ 5th International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics, Tsukuba, Japan Oct 15-17 @ 2nd International Biocuration meeting, San Jose, CA Oct 25-28

The Plant Ontology Consortium web: http:www.plantontology.org e-mail: po-dev@plantontology.org submit requests at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=76834&atid=835555