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
gobpid gocc gomfid gomf goccid gobp
Keywords
gene life science obo ontology
Version
2022-12-04
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON @news4go
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
Ontology
Has Part (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
Metaregistry Gene Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 18 mappings to external registries for go with 7 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl GO
AgroPortal AgroPortal logo agroportal GO
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 572
BioContext biocontext GO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal GO
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 1176
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.6xq0ee
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go GO
HL7 HL7 External Code Systems logo hl7 2.16.840.1.113883.6.128
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam go
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t go
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry logo ncbi GO
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry go
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols go
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee GO
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons go
UniProt UniProt Cross-ref database logo uniprot DB-0037
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P686
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE go:0032571 is used to demonstrate the provides available for go. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Gene Ontology go http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0032571
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/go:0032571
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/GO:0032571
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0032571
Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/go/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0032571
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/go:0032571
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/GO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0032571
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
CURATOR_REVIEW GO Browser http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/GO.cgi?id=GO:0032571
CURATOR_REVIEW GO through PANTHER http://www.pantherdb.org/panther/category.do?categoryAcc=GO:0032571
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/go:0032571
go_site GO Site Link http://www.geneontology.org/GO:0032571
jax Jackson Laboratories http://www.informatics.jax.org/vocab/gene_ontology/GO:0032571
miriam_obo_legacy MIRIAM OBO Legacy http://identifiers.org/obo.go/GO:0032571
nextprot neXtProt GO Browser https://www.nextprot.org/term/GO:0032571
quickgo QuickGO (Gene Ontology browser) https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/GTerm?id=GO:0032571