According to the Gene Ontology Consortium's (GOC) description of this category --the chemicandreactions and pathways by which individual cells form chemical substances [ 23]--it stands to reason that the diversity and abundance of transcripts in this class would be higher in an organism with more diverse cell types, such as the flowering plant taxon, Arabidopsis.
This paper presents the efforts of combining Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standards and ontologies to address these challenges.
The Semantic Web is made possible through a set of standards proposed by the WWW Consortium, including the following: Resource Description Framework (RDF).
To provide context for readers not familiar with eMERGE, the paper by Gottesman, et al. provides a description of the consortium and its current working groups.
The LIPID MAPS consortium offers the most detailed descriptions of the Bloch and Kandutsch-Russell branches of cholesterol biosynthesis, but these lack cell compartment information and lack integration with the 24(S ,25-epoxycholesterol S ,25-epoxycholesterolanching pathwayshunt.
Detailed description of the RNAi Consortium (TRC) lentiviral RNAi library used in this study was originally described in [13] and [16].
Space is also devoted to the description of how the consortium dealt with the inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral communication issues, internally in the project, and in interactions with external experts and other stakeholders.
Genes were analyzed based on gene expression levels and categorized into different functional groups based on the description of the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium to identify statistically significant terms.
Our international consortium has enabled comparison of standardised phenotypic descriptions among cases across the world, which improves statistical power by increasing the size of case groups.
DDF criteria (accessible through the relevant button at the top menu) were established by the CASIMIR consortium with the aim of standardizing database descriptions (further allowing quick benchmarking and loose evaluation) thus facilitating the choice of a resource for a given task, as well as its integration.
