PRotein Ontology (PRO) Release 2.0 Note
14-July-2008


The Protein Ontology Consortium--Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), The Jackson Laboratory, and the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo--is pleased to announce PRO Release 2.0 (14-July-2008). PRO describes the relationships of proteins and protein evolutionary classes, delineates the multiple protein forms of a gene locus (ontology for protein forms), and interconnects existing ontologies. Further information is available at http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/.

PRO Release 2.0 consists of 1023 terms with their respective definitions, comprising 149 proteins. This release is based on UniProtKB Release 13.2 and iProClass Release 3.49.