Gaudet, P;
Chisholm, R;
Berardini, T;
Dimmer, E;
Engel, SR;
Fey, P;
Hill, DP;
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(2009)
The Gene Ontology's Reference Genome Project: A Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species.
PLoS Computational Biology
, 5
(7)
, Article e1000431. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000431.
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Abstract
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a collaborative effort that provides structured vocabularies for annotating the molecular function, biological role, and cellular location of gene products in a highly systematic way and in a species-neutral manner with the aim of unifying the representation of gene function across different organisms. Each contributing member of the GO Consortium independently associates GO terms to gene products from the organism(s) they are annotating. Here we introduce the Reference Genome project, which brings together those independent efforts into a unified framework based on the evolutionary relationships between genes in these different organisms. The Reference Genome project has two primary goals: to increase the depth and breadth of annotations for genes in each of the organisms in the project, and to create data sets and tools that enable other genome annotation efforts to infer GO annotations for homologous genes in their organisms. In addition, the project has several important incidental benefits, such as increasing annotation consistency across genome databases, and providing important improvements to the GO's logical structure and biological content.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Gene Ontology's Reference Genome Project: A Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000431 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000431 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2009 Gaudet et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | SEQUENCE, PANTHER |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Pre-clinical and Fundamental Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/112834 |
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