Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward. Nucleic Acids Res 2015 Jan;43(Database issue):D1049-56
Date
11/28/2014Pubmed ID
25428369Pubmed Central ID
PMC4383973DOI
10.1093/nar/gku1179Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84946735654 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 2278 CitationsAbstract
The Gene Ontology (GO; http://www.geneontology.org) is a community-based bioinformatics resource that supplies information about gene product function using ontologies to represent biological knowledge. Here we describe improvements and expansions to several branches of the ontology, as well as updates that have allowed us to more efficiently disseminate the GO and capture feedback from the research community. The Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC) has expanded areas of the ontology such as cilia-related terms, cell-cycle terms and multicellular organism processes. We have also implemented new tools for generating ontology terms based on a set of logical rules making use of templates, and we have made efforts to increase our use of logical definitions. The GOC has a new and improved web site summarizing new developments and documentation, serving as a portal to GO data. Users can perform GO enrichment analysis, and search the GO for terms, annotations to gene products, and associated metadata across multiple species using the all-new AmiGO 2 browser. We encourage and welcome the input of the research community in all biological areas in our continued effort to improve the Gene Ontology.
Author List
Gene Ontology ConsortiumAuthors
Melinda R. Dwinell PhD Professor in the Physiology department at Medical College of WisconsinStanley J. Laulederkind Research Scientist II in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Shur-Jen Wang Research Scientist II in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Cell CycleDatabases, Genetic
Gene Ontology
Internet
Molecular Sequence Annotation
