Pathogen-Host Interaction Database (PHI-base, http://www.phi-base.org/)

Goal: Annotates pathogen genes based on known interactions with host organisms

Summary of Correspondence:

By email: Mon, Mar 23, 2015; Alistair Irvine to Ramona Walls: Dr. Alistair Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden

Interested in using ontologies to describing diseases in their database: Walls, R., et al. (2012). A plant disease extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology. International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 2012. Graz, Austria. 897: 1-5.
Currently, curation of diseases in PHI-base is performed through a simple free text field. This causes predicable problems, as can be since from the list of unique disease names that I extracted from our database and have attached to this email.
In your 2012 paper, you mention that researchers should contact you before using IDOPlant, because it was still under development. I wish to enquire about the current status of this project and if the plant disease terms would be sufficient to describe the diseases in our database (attached).

Downloaded the latest available Plant Disease Ontology OBO file from http://palea.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/viewsvn/Poc/trunk/ontology/collaborators_ontology/plant_disease/plant_disease_ontology.obo?view=log, but when I attempted to find diseases from our database I was not successful.

In addition to the disease, we do capture data regarding pathogen species, host species, infected tissue, inducers, anti-infective agent and more. Given the methodology in your paper, we could use this information to define the disease.