Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Jan;40(Database issue):D559-64. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr1028. Epub 2011 Nov 18.

The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011.

Collaborators (147)

Blake JA, Dolan M, Drabkin H, Hill DP, Ni L, Sitnikov D, Burgess S, Buza T, Gresham C, McCarthy F, Pillai L, Wang H, Carbon S, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Gaudet P, Chisholm RL, Fey P, Kibbe WA, Basu S, Siegele DA, McIntosh BK, Renfro DP, Zweifel AE, Hu JC, Brown NH, Tweedie S, Alam-Faruque Y, Apweiler R, Auchinchloss A, Axelsen K, Argoud-Puy G, Bely B, Blatter M-, Bougueleret L, Boutet E, Branconi S, Breuza L, Bridge A, Browne P, Chan WM, Coudert E, Cusin I, Dimmer E, Duek-Roggli P, Eberhardt R, Estreicher A, Famiglietti L, Ferro-Rojas S, Feuermann M, Gardner M, Gos A, Gruaz-Gumowski N, Hinz U, Hulo C, Huntley R, James J, Jimenez S, Jungo F, Keller G, Laiho K, Legge D, Lemercier P, Lieberherr D, Magrane M, Martin MJ, Masson P, Moinat M, O'Donovan C, Pedruzzi I, Pichler K, Poggioli D, Porras Millán P, Poux S, Rivoire C, Roechert B, Sawford T, Schneider M, Sehra H, Stanley E, Stutz A, Sundaram S, Tognolli M, Xenarios I, Foulger R, Lomax J, Roncaglia P, Camon E, Khodiyar VK, Lovering RC, Talmud PJ, Chibucos M, Gwinn Giglio M, Dolinski K, Heinicke S, Livstone MS, Stephan R, Harris MA, Oliver SG, Rutherford K, Wood V, Bahler J, Lock A, Kersey PJ, McDowall MD, Staines DM, Dwinell M, Shimoyama M, Laulederkind S, Hayman T, Wang S-, Petri V, Lowry T, D'Eustachio P, Matthews L, Amundsen CD, Balakrishnan R, Binkley G, Cherry JM, Christie KR, Costanzo MC, Dwight SS, Engel SR, Fisk DG, Hirschman JE, Hitz BC, Hong EL, Karra K, Krieger CJ, Miyasato SR, Nash RS, Park J, Skrzypek MS, Weng S, Wong ED, Berardini TZ, Li D, Huala E, Slonim D, Wick H, Thomas P, Chan J, Kishore R, Sternberg P, Van Auken K, Howe D, Westerfield M.

Abstract

The Gene Ontology (GO) (http://www.geneontology.org) is a community bioinformatics resource that represents gene product function through the use of structured, controlled vocabularies. The number of GO annotations of gene products has increased due to curation efforts among GO Consortium (GOC) groups, including focused literature-based annotation and ortholog-based functional inference. The GO ontologies continue to expand and improve as a result of targeted ontology development, including the introduction of computable logical definitions and development of new tools for the streamlined addition of terms to the ontology. The GOC continues to support its user community through the use of e-mail lists, social media and web-based resources.