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

• 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.

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

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

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.