Colleen F. Yanarella

This paper demonstrates using spoken phenotypic descriptions in GWAS to identify genomic regions associated with maize plant height, corroborating known associations and finding novel candidate genes.

The paper uses GOMAP to annotate gene functions across 18 crop plant genomes, showing that these annotations can recover known phylogenetic relationships, supporting comparative functional genomics.

The paper demonstrates the use of natural language processing to analyze plant phenotype descriptions, generating similarity networks and providing a web tool for querying gene-phenotype associations.