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PRotein Ontology (PRO) Release 30.0, version 0
09-November-2012

The Protein Ontology Consortium--Protein Information Resource, The Jackson Laboratory, Reactome, and the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo--is pleased to announce PRO Release 30.0 (09-November-2012). PRO describes the relationships of proteins and protein evolutionary classes, delineates the multiple protein forms of a gene locus (ontology for protein forms), protein complexes, and interconnects existing ontologies. Further information is available at http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/.

In PRO Release 30.0, version 0:

There are 35131 PRO terms
     324 terms are in the 'family' category.
   24116 terms are in the 'gene' category.
    1571 terms are in the 'sequence' category.
    6403 terms are in the 'modification' category.
     128 terms are in the 'complex' category.
       4 terms are in the 'organism-family' category.
     888 terms are in the 'organism-gene' category.
     614 terms are in the 'organism-sequence' category.
     643 terms are in the 'organism-modification' category.
     237 terms are in the 'organism-complex' category.
      16 terms are in the 'union' category.
1702 terms have some kind of annotation, codifying the information from 1193 papers.
    2515 connections to GO (893 PRO terms).
     374 connections to MOD (327 PRO terms).
     607 connections to Pfam (363 PRO terms).
     338 connections to SO (317 PRO terms).
     344 annotations of a phenotype (337 PRO terms).


The ontology includes a subset of terms from GO, MOD, CHEBI, and SO ontologies that are used for logical definitions.  If using OBO Edit to view PRO, please turn on the reasoner in order to display the hierarchy.

_Current changes_

1) Please note that this release contains a number of duplicate names and synonyms. We will be take care of these in upcoming releases.

_Forthcoming changes_

1) Continue to add shorthand labels to terms.
2) Continue to expand the set of mapped terms.
3) Remove names and synonym duplicates.

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