The Gene Ontology project provides a controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes in any organism.

Prefix

go

Preferred Prefix

GO

Alternative Prefixes

goccid gocc gobp gomf gobpid gomfid

Keywords

annotation biocuration biological process cellular component data model expression data gene gene functional annotation gene ontology enrichment knowledge representation life science molecular function obo ontology protein sequence annotation transcript

Version

2024-03-28

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON @go@genomic.social

Contact

Suzi Aleksander   0000-0001-6787-2901   suzialeksander

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Gene Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0032571   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Gene Ontology should match this regular expression:
^GO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

GO:0032571

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For Gene Ontology, the banana looks like GO:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like GO:0032571 (instead of the canonical form 0032571) and CURIEs for this resource that look like GO:GO:0032571 (instead of the canonical form GO:0032571). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2021 The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine
• 2019 The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong
• 2014 Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward
• 2013 Dovetailing biology and chemistry: integrating the Gene Ontology with the ChEBI chemical ontology
• 2012 Gene Ontology annotations and resources
• 2011 The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011
• 2009 The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements
• 2004 The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource
• 2000 Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. The Gene Ontology Consortium

Contributors

• contributor James Alastair McLaughlin   0000-0002-8361-2795   jamesamcl

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Has Parts (bfo:0000051 )

GORULE

Depends On (4) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

CL NCBITaxon RO UBERON

Appears In (13) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AGRO CHIRO CL ECOCORE ECTO ENVO MAXO PCL PCO PLANP UBERON XPO ZP

In Collection

Global Biodata Coalition - Global Core Biodata Resources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 22 mappings to external registries for this resource with 10 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0032571 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Gene Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.