Announcing Phenex 1.0

November 25, 2009

Phenoscape is proud to announce the immediate availabiity of Phenex 1.0, the first public release of our platform-independent desktop application for annotating character-by-taxon matrices with ontology terms.  Phenex has been in development and available in beta form for over a year, while we used it to curate more than 50 publications for inclusion in the Phenoscape Knowledgebase. Read the rest of this entry »

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PATO Users Meeting

November 20, 2009

Last month I participated in an informal meeting for users and developers of the Phenotype and Trait Ontology (PATO), organized by Chris Mungall and Suzanna Lewis at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs in Berkeley, California. PATO is the quality ontology used by many in the OBO community to annotate phenotypic variation. We are heavy-duty PATO users here at Phenoscape, so I was eager to meet with its developers and other users to discuss outstanding issues and hear about phenotype annotation from other projects. Read the rest of this entry »

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