Data services at arabidopsis.info

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Data services at arabidopsis.info Nottingham
Arabidopsis Stock Centre
Daisy Belfield, Zoe Emmerson, Graeme Gill, Neil
Graham, Nick James, Lubomira Kacinova, Nicola
Leftley, Linda Lucas, Sean May, Alan Mortimore,
Rebecca Roberts, Beatrice Schildknecht, Mo
Topham, Henrik Townsend, and Emma Wigmore.
Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre, University
of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus,
Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK
NASC holds comprehensive data about the biology
of Arabidopsis as well as physical resources
Data, metadata and materials are generated
in-house from our germplasm collection,
phenotyping, transcriptomics and other services.
Arabidopsis Data is obtained from the general
Arabidopsis community and may be enriched and
curated by other Arabidopsis public sources (e.g.
TAIR, TIGR, EMBL, MIPS) and integrated in our
genome viewer.
Physical materials include over 500,000
transgenic accessions and ecotypes as seed RNA-I
clones GST amplicons spotted arrays and CD /
DVDs of transcriptome data ( over 3,000 chips
worth).
NASCarrays
Phenomics (seed)
Atensembl (genomics)
Web and web-services interfaces to the community
BioMOBY
Catalogue Products
XML / SOAP
An example of international standardisation in
NASC - Plant Ontology / controlled vocabularies

• The Plant Ontology (PO) is a controlled
  vocabulary (ontology) of terms to describe
  anatomical / development stages in plants.
• Ontologies improve the quality of biological
  annotations and allow improved methods of
  database querying over the conventional keyword
  approach.
• PO at NASC
• Many stocks in our germplasm catalogue have
  textual descriptions of phenotypes observed by
  their donor. We have been annotating these
  germplasm lines using anatomical terms from the
  Plant Ontology.
• We are prototyping the use of the Phenotype
  Attribute Trait Ontology (PATO) to describe
  anatomical parts from the PO.

Through the NASC browser, one can explore the
ontology tree or search to find the anatomical
term of interest.

• NASCArrays is also using the Plant Ontology to
  describe the anatomical parts of the plant used
  in a microarray experiment.

All Arabidopsis data generated through our
service is publicly available
NASC