Primer on the Gene Ontology

By Pascale Gaudet, Nives Skunca, James C. Hu, Christophe Dessimoz. 2016

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The Gene Ontology (GO) project is the largest resource for cataloguing gene function. The combination of solid conceptual underpinnings and a practical set of features have made the GO a widely adopted resource in the research community and an essential resource for data analysis. In this chapter, we provide a concise primer for all users of the GO. We briefly introduce the structure of the ontology and explain how to interpret annotations associated with the GO.

Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology

Citations in the corpus

• The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine (2020, unknown): “The GO ontology provides a formal structure that defines the universe of possible gene functions (GO terms), and the relationships between them (6).”