RNA Ontology Consortium
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The RNA Ontology Consortium is an international organization whose purpose is to create a standard vocabulary
Vocabulary
A person's vocabulary is the set of words within a language that are familiar to that person. A vocabulary usually develops with age, and serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge...

 for studying ribonucleic acid. The Consortium shall also provide a central system for organizing information related to ribonucleic acid. The Consortium is one of the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
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's Research Coordination Networks. The Foundation shall provide 500,000 USD
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 to support the Consortium for five years. The Consortium's information shall be hosted by Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University
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 and available via the internet
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.

The Consortium's leader is Dr. Neocles Leontis, a Bowling Green State University chemistry
Chemistry
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 professor
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. The Consortium also includes scientists from the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada and Australia. Researchers from Stanford, Duke
Duke University
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, Yale
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, and Rutgers universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
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, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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, the University of Rochester
University of Rochester
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, the University of Montréal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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, the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire
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 in France, and The Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute
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shall participate in the Consortium.
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