Release Notes Archive

Plant Ontology Release #15 May 2011

Plant Ontology Database

Summary of changes to the ontologies

Ontology updates

Number of terms:

Total terms (not including obsoletes) 1426
Total children terms in Plant Anatomy (not including obsoletes) 1185
Total children terms in Plant Growth and Development Stages (not including obsoletes) 239

Associations / Annotations

Number of associations/annotations:

Total number of associations 590701
Number of associations NEW 5993
Total number of unique objects (genes, germplasms, QTLs) 46545
Number of unique objects NEW 117

Number of associations by source database:

Database Associations Total#
TAIR Arabidopsis (mouse-ear cress) 531380
NASC Arabidopsis (mouse-ear cress) 1897
Gramene Oryza sativa (rice) 29872
Gramene Phsycomitrella 20
MaizeGDB Zea mays (maize) 7601
SGN (individual species listed below) 19931
-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) 18878
-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 24484
NASC (Arabidopsis) germplasm 1897
Gramene (rice) gene 1725
Gramene (rice) QTL 8558
Gramene (Physcomitrella Patens) gene 5
MaizeGDB (maize) gene 1006
MaizeGDB (maize) germplasm 3928
SGN gene 174
SGN germplasm 4503

Total number of associations by evidence code:

Evidence Code Associations Total#
IC 18101
IDA 20403
IEA 1
IEP 514468
IMP 32483
ISS 21
NAS 30
TAS 5350

Total number of object types by evidence code:

Object Type Evidence Code Object Type Total#
protein IDA 17251
protein IEP 511600
protein IPI 4
protein NAS 29
protein TAS 88
IDA 9
IEP 2248
IMP 4
miRNA IDA 22
miRNA IEP 129
RNA IEP 41
gene_product IEP 1
gene_product NAS 1
snoRNA IEP 1
germplasm IDA 3045
germplasm IMP 23752
gene IC 571
gene IDA 76
gene IEA 1
gene IEP 448
gene IMP 2427
gene ISS 21
gene TAS 5262
QTL IC 17530
QTL IMP 6304