title: An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dictyostelium discoideum is a model system for studying many important physiological processes including chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and signal transduction. The recent sequencing of the genome has revealed the presence of over 12,500 protein-coding genes. The model organism database dictyBase hosts the genome sequence as well as a large amount of manually curated information.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present here an anatomy ontology for Dictyostelium based upon the life cycle of the organism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anatomy ontologies are necessary to annotate species-specific events such as phenotypes, and the Dictyostelium anatomy ontology provides an essential tool for curation of the Dictyostelium genome.
authors: dictyBase, Northwestern University, Center for Genetic Medicine, 676 N, St, Clair, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. pgaudet@northwestern.edu
authors: Pascale
authors: P
authors: Gaudet
authors: Jeffery G
authors: JG
authors: Williams
authors: Petra
authors: P
authors: Fey
authors: Rex L
authors: RL
authors: Chisholm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics; D018503:Genome, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics*; D008018:Life Cycle Stages / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D010641:Phenotype