GO and PO Facilitate Integration and Mining of Arabidopsis Data

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR, http://arabidopsis.org) is a genome database for Arabidopsis thaliana, an important reference organism for many fundamental aspects of biology as well as basic and applied plant biology research.  TAIR serves as a central access point for Arabidopsis data, annotates gene function and expression patterns using controlled vocabulary terms, and maintains and updates the A. thaliana genome assembly and annotation.  Annotation and retrieval of gene expression and gene function data using Gene Ontology (GO) and Plant Ontology (PO) terms will be presented.