Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference

January 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Does Your Gene Product Show On GO?

Jennifer I Clark

  EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambs, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.

The Gene Ontology (GO) project (http://www.geneontology.org) provides structured, controlled vocabularies and classifications that describe gene products in terms of molecular function, biological process, and location of action within the cell. The vocabularies are freely available for community use in the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences. Many model organism databases and genome annotation groups use the GO and contribute their annotation sets to the GO resource.
The Consortium provides the free browsing tool AmiGO (http://godatabase.org/) to allow bench scientists to search our vocabularies and annotation sets and to use them to address biological questions. In addition to this we provide support for individuals or groups who wish to contribute annotation sets. Detailed instructions can be found on our website.
GO Consortium home page: http://www.geneontology.org.