GO -- the Gene Ontology Database
What you can do:
Search structured, controlled vocabularies for community use in annotating genes, gene products and sequences.
Highlights:
- The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium (GOC) continues to develop, maintain and use a set of structured, controlled vocabularies for the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences.
- The GO ontologies are expanding both in content and in structure.
- Several new relationship types have been introduced and used, along with existing relationships, to create links between and within the GO domains.
- These improve the representation of biology, facilitate querying, and allow GO developers to systematically check for and correct inconsistencies within the GO.
- Gene product annotation using GO continues to increase both in the number of total annotations and in species coverage.
- GO tools, such as OBO-Edit, an ontology-editing tool, and AmiGO, the GOC ontology browser, have seen major improvements in functionality, speed and ease of use.
Keywords:
- gene ontology
- gene annotations
- genome annotations
- AmiGo
- ontology editing
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: GO
-- 2006 Update: The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2006
-- 2008 Update: The Gene Ontology project in 2008
-- 2010 Update: The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements
-- 2006 Update: The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2006
-- 2008 Update: The Gene Ontology project in 2008
-- 2010 Update: The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements
This record last updated: 02-11-2010