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There is a plant ontology consortium (POC) that is involved in trying to rationalise terminology used by Arabidopsis, Zea and Oryza people, and by extension (I hope) more gererally in fl. pl.

Peter S.

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BODDS -Biological Ontological Descriptive Data Standard. It sounds kinda sexy when you say BODDS outloud. Or very juvenile. Or both.

well, if the shoe fits, I suppose we should wear it...

or we could just call it Biological Ontology... :)

nah... that one stinks...

jim

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