The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Keywords
Bibliography, Databases-Genetic, Electronic-Mail, Genes, Genomics, Human, Information-Storage-and-Retrieval, Internet, Molecular-Biology, Proteins, Software, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Terminology
JAX Source
Nucleic Acids Res 2004 Jan; 32:D258-61.
Abstract
The Gene Ontology (GO) project (http://www. geneontology.org/) provides structured, controlled vocabularies and classifications that cover several domains of molecular and cellular biology and are freely available for community use in the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences. Many model organism databases and genome annotation groups use the GO and contribute their annotation sets to the GO resource. The GO database integrates the vocabularies and contributed annotations and provides full access to this information in several formats. Members of the GO Consortium continually work collectively, involving outside experts as needed, to expand and update the GO vocabularies. The GO Web resource also provides access to extensive documentation about the GO project and links to applications that use GO data for functional analyses.
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Harris MA,
Clark J,
Ashburner M,
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Rubin GM,
Blake JA,
Bult C,
Dolan M,
Drabkin H,
Eppig JT,
Hill DP,
Ringwald M,
Balakrishnan R.
The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource. Nucleic Acids Res 2004 Jan; 32:D258-61.