Tutorial on Protein Ontology Resources.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2017
JAX Location
Reprint Collection
JAX Source
Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1558:57-78
Volume
1558
First Page
57
Last Page
78
ISSN
1940-6029
PMID
28150233
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6783-4_3
Grant
GM080646
Abstract
The Protein Ontology (PRO) is the reference ontology for proteins in the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) foundry and consists of three sub-ontologies representing protein classes of homologous genes, proteoforms (e.g., splice isoforms, sequence variants, and post-translationally modified forms), and protein complexes. PRO defines classes of proteins and protein complexes, both species-specific and species nonspecific, and indicates their relationships in a hierarchical framework, supporting accurate protein annotation at the appropriate level of granularity, analyses of protein conservation across species, and semantic reasoning. In the first section of this chapter, we describe the PRO framework including categories of PRO terms and the relationship of PRO to other ontologies and protein resources. Next, we provide a tutorial about the PRO website ( proconsortium.org ) where users can browse and search the PRO hierarchy, view reports on individual PRO terms, and visualize relationships among PRO terms in a hierarchical table view, a multiple sequence alignment view, and a Cytoscape network view. Finally, we describe several examples illustrating the unique and rich information available in PRO. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1558:57-78.
Recommended Citation
Arighi C,
Drabkin HJ,
Christie KR,
Ross K,
Natale D.
Tutorial on Protein Ontology Resources. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1558:57-78