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PRotein Ontology (PRO) Release 39.0, version 0
16-January-2014

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 39.0 (16-January-2014). 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 39.0, version 0:

There are 59015 PRO terms
      53 terms are in the 'external' category.
     342 terms are in the 'family' category.
   23509 terms are in the 'gene' category.
    1774 terms are in the 'sequence' category.
    6626 terms are in the 'modification' category.
     182 terms are in the 'complex' category.
       9 terms are in the 'organism-family' category.
   23731 terms are in the 'organism-gene' category.
     859 terms are in the 'organism-sequence' category.
    1383 terms are in the 'organism-modification' category.
     322 terms are in the 'organism-complex' category.
      20 terms are in the 'union' category.
2015 terms have some kind of annotation, codifying the information from 1299 papers.
    3208 connections to GO (1146 PRO terms).
     374 connections to MOD (331 PRO terms).
     617 connections to Pfam (371 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_

None

_Forthcoming changes_

In forthcoming release MIM terms in PAF file will be replaced by the corresponding controlled vocabulary in disease ontology (DO).

Ongoing

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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