Release Notes Archive

Plant Ontology Release #14 January 2011

Plant Ontology Database

Summary of changes to the ontologies

Ontology updates

Number of terms:

Total terms (not including obsoletes)	1282
Total children terms in Plant Structure (not including obsoletes)	1042
Total children terms in Plant Growth and Development Stages (not including obsoletes)	238

Associations / Annotations

Number of associations/annotations:

Total number of associations	584708
Number of associations NEW	0
Total number of unique objects (genes, germplasms, QTLs)	46428
Number of unique objects NEW	0

Number of associations by source database:

Database	Associations Total#
TAIR Arabidopsis (mouse-ear cress)	525407
NASC Arabidopsis (mouse-ear cress)	1897
Gramene Oryza sativa (rice)	29872
MaizeGDB Zea mays (maize)	7601
SGN (individual species listed below)	19467
-Anisodus acutangulus	2
-Atropa baetica	4
-Capsicum annuum (pepper)	54
-Coffea arabica (coffee)	8
-Datura strumonium (jimson weed)	3
-Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane)	2
-Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato)	18414
-Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco)	38
-Petunia hybrida (hybrid petunia)	56
-Physalis spp	4
-Solanum insanum/Solanum melongena (eggplant)	868
-Solanum tuberosum (potato)	14

Total number of individual object types by source database:

Database	Object Type	Object Types Total#
TAIR (Arabidopsis)	gene	24381
NASC (Arabidopsis)	germplasm	1897
Gramene (rice)	gene	1715
Gramene (rice)	QTL	8558
MaizeGDB (maize)	gene	1006
MaizeGDB (maize)	germplasm	3928
SGN	gene	174
SGN	germplasm	4421

Total number of associations by evidence code:

Evidence Code	Associations Total#
IC	18101
IDA	19578
IEA	1
IEP	509300
IMP	32483
ISS	21
NAS	30
TAS	5349

Total number of object types by evidence code:

Object Type	Evidence Code	Object Type Total#
protein	IDA	16434
protein	IEP	506482
protein	IPI	4
protein	NAS	29
protein	TAS	87
	IDA	466
	IEP	2219
	IMP	4
miRNA	IDA	17
miRNA	IEP	129
RNA	IEP	40
gene_product	IEP	1
gene_product	NAS	1
snoRNA	IEP	1
germplasm	IMP	23748
germplasm	IDA	2585
gene	IC	571
gene	IDA	76
gene	IEA	1
gene	IEP	428
gene	IMP	2427
gene	ISS	21
gene	TAS	5262
QTL	IC	17530
QTL	IMP	6304