Ontologies
GO
Gene Ontology (GO)
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Last submission date March 22, 2025
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General information

Abstract

The Gene Ontology (GO) project is a collaborative effort to address the need for consistent descriptions of gene products across databases. Founded in 1998, the project began as a collaboration between three model organism databases, FlyBase (Drosophila), the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD). The GO Consortium (GOC) has since grown to incorporate many databases, including several of the world's major repositories for plant, animal, and microbial genomes. The GO Contributors page lists all member organizations. See more...

Description

The Gene Ontology (GO) provides a framework and set of concepts for describing the functions of gene products from all organisms. See more...
Initial created on March 22, 2025. For additional information, contact Gene Ontology (go@geneontology.org).

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Keywords and classes

gene function
biology
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0003674
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0022607
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0008150
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Total score : 326.0 ( 68.0%)
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Identifiers

URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl

Version IRI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/releases/2025-03-16/go.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/releases/2025-03-16/go.owl

AgroPortal URI

https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/GO
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/GO

Dates

Creation date

March 22, 2025

Submission date

March 22, 2025

Persons and organizations

Contact

Gene Ontology

Contributor

http://geneontology.org/page/go-consortium-contributors-list

Publisher

Gene Ontology Consortium

Funded or sponsored by

NIH

Other links

Projects and usage information

Projects using GO

AgBase
Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards
Agronomic Linked Data
Bioinformatics Resource for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens
Computational Biology Institute
Dictybase
Echinoderm genomic database
Genome Database for Rosaceae
Hardwood Genomics Project
i5k Workspace@NAL
Legume Information System
Maize Genetics and Genomics Database
Monarch Initiative
PeanutBase
Plant Genome and Systems Biology
Planteome
SoyBase and the Soybean Breeder's Toolbox
The Arabidopsis Information Resource
The Triticeae Toolbox

Known usage

The use of GO terms by collaborating databases facilitates uniform queries across all of them. Controlled vocabularies are structured so they can be queried at different levels; for example, users may query GO to find all gene products in the mouse genome that are involved in signal transduction, or zoom in on all receptor tyrosine kinases that have been annotated. This structure also allows annotators to assign properties to genes or gene products at different levels, depending on the depth of knowledge about that entity.

Methodology and provenance

Created with

OWL API

Community

Repository

https://sourceforge.net/projects/geneontology/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/geneontology/

Bug database

https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology/issues/
https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology/issues/

Mailing list

http://geneontology.org/page/go-mailing-lists
http://geneontology.org/page/go-mailing-lists

Groups

Consortium of Agricultural Biological Databases
OBO Foundry

Content

Root of obsolete branch

http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass

Identifier pattern

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_[0-9]{7}
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_[0-9]{7}

Preferred namespace URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_

Preferred namespace prefix

gene_ontology

Example of resource

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0015219
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0015219

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