Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward

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…

• OS
  Oregon State University
• WT
  Wellcome Trust
• EB
  European Bioinformatics Institute
• EM
  European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: HG002273
• BA
  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  Award: BB/L024136/1
• LB
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory