Help Document for Controlled Vocabulary Online Submission Form

Please use this form to suggest new terms for the plant ontology vocabulary. You can also use this form to suggest corrections. A confirmation email will be sent to you by our curators within two days.

Note: Fields marked with * are mandatory.

Submission type*: the drop menu allows you to select on the type of submission you are about to make.

• New term: if the suggestion is for a new term
• New suggestion for a relationship: if you think that for a term, there should be either a new relationship or an additional one to an existing parent term. The DAG(Directed Acyclic Graphs) allows the terms to have multiple parent-child relationships unless a cycle is created, which is not allowed.
• Correction: suggest for mistakes in terms and definitions e.g. new definition/updates on definition, synonyms, references or comments. Please mention the original term if you are suggesting correction(s).

Suggested term*: Type the full scientific name of the term (single name).

Synonym: provide the synonyms if there are any. Separate the multiple synonym terms by semi-colon (;).

Associated Ontology*: select the Ontology type to which the suggested new term should belong to.

• PO: Anatomy related vocabulay
• PO: Developmental and Growth Stages vocabulary
• TO: Trait Ontology for plants
• GO: molecular function of a gene product
• GO: biological process
• GO: cellular component

Taxonomic class: If the suggested term is specific to a plant then carefully select for dicot or monocot and if others is the option, please specify.

Definition of the suggested term*: try to provide the precise scientific definition for the suggested term. The field should be used for New term/New suggestion for a relationship/correction (from the field "Submission type").

Parent terms:
 

• Parent term 1: mention the parent term if any available from the presently available ontology terms.
• Relationship to parent: select if the suggested term should be considered as a part of (is a parent of ) or is an instance of (child of) the parent term.
• Parent ontology ID No: mention the TO/PO/GO ID of the parent term, if known.
• Parent term 2: same as for Parent term 1. Important thing to observe here is that the DAG allows terms to have multiple parent-child relationships unless a cycle is created, which is not allowed.
 
(NB: the present ontology terms can be searched HERE )

Reference for the new suggestion:
 

• Reference category*: mention the documentary evidence for the suggested term e.g. published or a personal communication. The option "curator" is for internal use.
• Curator: do not select unless you have been authorized as a curator by the Gramene
• Ref. Source: If the option "published" is selected in the "Reference category", then select from the drop of menu, the source of publication, whether it is
• PubMed: if an article is available from PubMed
• ISBN: Mention the ISBN number of the publication, published Journal (if not listed by PubMed) or Book. .
• Web site: if the information is presented on a web site, preferably authored by a scientist or hosted by a scientific institution.
• Database: if the information is available from a scientific database e.g. TAIR, TIGR, MIPS, GenBank, EMBL, Expasy, etc.
• Others: Carefully select this option only if any of the above does not apply. This will help our curators in while having a second look at your contribution.
• Reference details: please provide the complete citation for the reference which should be referred for the suggested term.

Comments: provide your comments (if any), which you think the curators and users community should be informed about the suggested term.

Contributor information: the contributor should provide the correct information about  him/herself, to help us identify your contribution. Your valuable contribution will be cited, if found appropriate. The mandatory (*)fields are:

Last (Family) name
First name
Organization/institution
Address
City
Country
Email

PDF version of the submission form: In case the problem is incurred in ONLINE submission, please print/save the PDF version of this fill in form (allows you to type in the fields) and send in email to po-dev@plantontology.org