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PRotein Ontology (PRO) Release 32.0, version 0
15-February-2013

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 32.0 (15-February-2013). 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 32.0, version 0:

There are 35196 PRO terms
     325 terms are in the 'family' category.
   23819 terms are in the 'gene' category.
    1628 terms are in the 'sequence' category.
    6480 terms are in the 'modification' category.
     135 terms are in the 'complex' category.
       4 terms are in the 'organism-family' category.
     932 terms are in the 'organism-gene' category.
     667 terms are in the 'organism-sequence' category.
     742 terms are in the 'organism-modification' category.
     258 terms are in the 'organism-complex' category.
      16 terms are in the 'union' category.
1796 terms have some kind of annotation, codifying the information from 1242 papers.
    2941 connections to GO (983 PRO terms).
     374 connections to MOD (328 PRO terms).
     610 connections to Pfam (365 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 still contains a number of duplicate names and synonyms. These will be resolved in upcoming releases.

_Forthcoming changes_

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

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