Released Phenote v2.0 update (PhenoScape beta 1535)

February 19, 2008

Released new Phenote version (Phenote-MacOSX.zip, Phenote-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.

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Released Phenote v2.0 update (PhenoScape beta 1468)

February 4, 2008

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

  • Taxon Comments field
  • Publication Name field
  • changed Taxon field to Valid Name
  • write out starter NEXUS file for Taxon List (in phylogeny window)
  • press Cmd-Return to enter current value and advance to next character while editing the same field
  • in-progress Save (Cmd-S)
  • simultaneous save of main document and taxon list files
  • lock layout of interface panels (look in the Settings menu – Nicole Washington added this, it’s really handy)

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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.

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Posted by Hilmar

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.

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