Abstract
Background: Dictyostelium discoideum is a model system for studying many important physiological processes including chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and signal transduction. The recent sequencing of the genome has revealed the presence of over 12,500 protein-coding genes. The model organism database dictyBase hosts the genome sequence as well as a large amount of manually curated information.
Results: We present here an anatomy ontology for Dictyostelium based upon the life cycle of the organism.
Conclusion: Anatomy ontologies are necessary to annotate species-specific events such as phenotypes, and the Dictyostelium anatomy ontology provides an essential tool for curation of the Dictyostelium genome.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 130 |
| Pages (from-to) | - |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | BMC Genomics |
| Volume | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Mar 2008 |
Keywords
- Cellular slime mold
- Anterior-like cells
- Extracellular matrix
- Macrocyst formation
- Sexual development
- Prestalk cells
- Bio-ontologies
- Surface sheath
- Gene ontology
- Mating types