]> 2013-05-18T14:37:39-07:00 Resource:PAMGO PAMGO curated http://pamgo.vbi.vt.edu/ The Gene Ontology (GO) consortium was formed in 1998 to create universal descriptors, which can be used to describe functionally similar gene products and their attributes across all organisms. In 2004, the PAMGO interest group joined the GO consortium to extend the GO to include terms describing various processes related to microbe-host interactions. Plant-associated microbes have evolved similar mechanisms to evade, neutralize or suppress defense systems of their plant hosts and obtain nutrients. Such similarities can only be discovered if a controlled vocabulary is set in place to describe these processes amongst diverse microbe-host interactions. The PAMGO initiative is a multi-institutional (Cornell University, North Carolina State University, The Institute of Genomic Research, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Wells College) collaborative effort involving scientists working on plant pathogenic genomes: the bacteria Dickeya dadantii, Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the fungus Magnaporthe grisea, the oomycetes Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ramorum and the nematode Meloidogyne hapla. An initial term development effort produced a set of higher-level biological process terms that could be used to describe general processes often encountered by microbes interacting with their hosts. These higher order terms are appropriate for describing gene products of all types of symbionts (e.g. parasites, commensalists, and mutualists), including prokaryotes and eukaryotes that associate with plant or animal hosts. Currently, nearly 900 PAMGO terms are incorporated in the GO. Category:2005-35600-16370 Category:EF-0523736 nlx_92278 Resource:PAMGO 2011-07-13T00:00:00 Resource Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology Plant Associated Microbe Gene Ontology PAMGO - Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology Resource Synonym National Science Foundation NRI-CSREES Supporting Agency SuperCategory ModifiedDate Label Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Virginia; USA Is part of Id Ontology Has role Grant File:PAMGO.PNG ExampleImage Definition DefiningCitation CurationStatus Abbrev