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

gocc goccid gomfid gobpid gobp gomf

Version

2021-10-26

Links

Homepage OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

suzia@stanford.edu

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 includes the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. The actual part that gets prefixed before the local unique identifier regex, otherwise known as the banana, is GO:. Therefore, you might see local unique identifiers written out as CURIEs.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 mappings to external registries for go.

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.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.