The GO reference collection is a set of abstracts that can be cited in the GO ontologies (e.g. as dbxrefs for term definitions) and annotation files (in the Reference column). It provides two types of reference; It can be used to provide details of why specific Evidence codes (see http://identifiers.org/eco/) are assigned, or to present abstract-style descriptions of "GO content" meetings at which substantial changes in the ontologies are discussed and made.

Prefix

go.ref

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000041   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Gene Ontology Database references should match this regular expression:
^go\.ref:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

go.ref:0000041

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 Database references, the banana looks like GO_REF:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like GO_REF:0000041 (instead of the canonical form 0000041) and CURIEs for this resource that look like go.ref:GO_REF:0000041 (instead of the canonical form go.ref:0000041). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

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 0000041 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Gene Ontology Database references. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.