Released Phenote v2.0 update (PhenoScape beta 1535)

February 19, 2008

Released new Phenote version (Phenote-MacOSX.zipPhenote-Windows.zip). It has the following new features:

  • Museum collection code name completion when entering specimens for a taxon.
  • Separate editable table for entering specimens for a taxon.
  • Field for spatial ontology.
  • Post-composition enabled for PATO fields.

Summer internship opportunities available

February 1, 2008

We have summer internship funding for graduate students and postdocs interested in gaining expertise in informatics and the application of ontologies to evolutionary, anatomical, developmental, and genetic data. See details on the NESCent employment page.


Teleost Anatomy and Taxonomy Ontologies on-line at the NCBO BioPortal

January 31, 2008

The Teleost Anatomy Ontology (TAO) and the Teleost Taxonomy Ontology (TTO) are finally on-line and searchable on the NCBO BioPortal.

The ontologies were deposited into the OBO versioning system already in November, but a database loading problem prevented their functioning in the BioPortal browser earlier.