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Gene Ontology

The Gene Ontology
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DescriptionResource with controlled vocabulary to describe the function of genes and gene products
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The Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species.[1] More specifically, the project aims to: 1) maintain and develop its controlled vocabulary of gene and gene product attributes; 2) annotate genes and gene products, and assimilate and disseminate annotation data; and 3) provide tools for easy access to all aspects of the data provided by the project, and to enable functional interpretation of experimental data using the GO, for example via enrichment analysis.[2][3] GO is part of a larger classification effort, the Open Biomedical Ontologies, being one of the Initial Candidate Members of the OBO Foundry.[4]

Whereas gene nomenclature focuses on gene and gene products, the Gene Ontology focuses on the function of the genes and gene products. The GO also extends the effort by using a markup language to make the data (not only of the genes and their products but also of curated attributes) machine readable, and to do so in a way that is unified across all species (whereas gene nomenclature conventions vary by biological taxon).

  1. ^ The Gene Ontology Consortium (January 2008). "The Gene Ontology project in 2008". Nucleic Acids Research. 36 (Database issue): D440–4. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm883. PMC 2238979. PMID 17984083.
  2. ^ Dessimoz, Christophe; Škunca, Nives, eds. (2017). The Gene Ontology Handbook. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 1446. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3743-1. ISBN 9781493937431. ISSN 1064-3745. S2CID 3708801. Open access icon
  3. ^ Gaudet, Pascale; Škunca, Nives; Hu, James C.; Dessimoz, Christophe (2017). "Primer on the Gene Ontology". The Gene Ontology Handbook. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 1446. pp. 25–37. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3743-1_3. ISBN 978-1-4939-3741-7. ISSN 1064-3745. PMC 6377150. PMID 27812933.
  4. ^ Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, Bard J, Bug W, Ceusters W, Goldberg LJ, Eilbeck K, Ireland A, Mungall CJ, Leontis N, Rocca-Serra P, Ruttenberg A, Sansone SA, Scheuermann RH, Shah N, Whetzel PL, Lewis S (November 2007). "The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (11): 1251–5. doi:10.1038/nbt1346. PMC 2814061. PMID 17989687.