Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
Nature GeneticsPublished 1 May 2000Open access
Michael Ashburner, Catherine A. Ball, Judith A. Blake, David Botstein, H. Butler, J. Michael Cherry
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The goal of the Gene Ontology Consortium is to produce a dynamic, controlled vocabulary that can be applied to all eukaryotes even as knowledge of gene and protein roles in cells is accumulating and changing.
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This FAIRsharing record describes: The Gene Ontology (GO) is a structured vocabulary for use by the research community for the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences. The GO defines concepts/classes used to describe gene function and relationships between these concepts.
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