Ten Quick Tips for Using the Gene Ontology

The Gene Ontology (GO) provides core biological knowledge representation for modern biologists, whether computationally or experimentally based. GO resources include biomedical ontologies that cover molecular domains of all life forms as well as extensive compilations of gene product annotations to these ontologies that provide largely species-neutral, comprehensive statements about what gene products do. Although extensively used in data analysis workflows, and widely incorporated into numerous data analysis platforms and applications, the general user of GO resources often misses fundamental distinctions about GO structures, GO annotations, and what can and can not be extrapolated from GO resources. Here are ten quick tips for using the Gene Ontology.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS Comput. Biol.

• Publication date

  2013-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003343PMID 24244145PMCID 3828149
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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