The Plant Ontology2 Consortium and Plant Ontologies
2002
Plant Ontology Consortium and Plant Ontologies
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Author Information
Author(s): Richard Bruskiewich, Edward H. Coe, Pankaj Jaiswal, Susan McCouch, Mary Polacco, Lincoln Stein, Leszek Vincent, Doreen Ware
Primary Institution: Department of Agronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia
Conclusion
The Plant Ontology Consortium aims to create structured controlled vocabularies for plant-based databases to improve data consistency and retrieval.
Supporting Evidence
- The Plant Ontology Consortium is developing ontologies for various plant taxa.
- Structured controlled vocabularies will help in consistent data curation.
- The consortium aims to facilitate inter-database queries among plant databases.
Takeaway
The Plant Ontology Consortium is working to make it easier for scientists to share and find information about plants by creating a common language.
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