PRotein Ontology (PRO) Release 8.0, version 1
14-Jan-2010


The Protein Ontology Consortium-- Protein Information Resource, The Jackson Laboratory, Reactome, and the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo--is pleased to announce PRO Release 8.0 v.1 (14-Jan-2010). 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 8.0, version 1 consists of:

18214 PRO terms
   1093 terms are in the 'modification' category.
   941 terms are in the 'sequence' category.
   15903 terms are in the 'gene' category.
   260 terms are in the 'family' category.
1233 terms are annotated, codifying the information from 842 papers.
  1781 connections to GO (599 PRO terms).
  235 connections to MOD (194 PRO terms).
  599 connections to Pfam (358 PRO terms).
  325 connections to SO (307 PRO terms).
  296 annotations of a phenotype (289 PRO terms). 

Now the ontology includes a subset of terms from MOD and MI ontologies that has been used for the logical definitions.  If you open the obo file in obo edit, please turn on the reasoner in order to display the hierarchy.