Gene Ontology

Ashburner, M., Ball, C. A., Blake, J. A., Botstein, D., Butler, H., Cherry, J. M., Davis, A. P., et al. (2000). Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology. Nature Genetics, 25(1).

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2000

Volume

25

Issue

1

DOI

10.1038/75556

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/75556

Cited from

computer_science

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Stovepipe System
  • In scientific disciplines each field builds its own venues, formats, and naming conventions, so the same gene, compound, or star is named three ways until ontology and shared-database projects intervene.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    The GO paper shows gene nomenclature diverging across model-organism databases and a shared controlled vocabulary built to fix it, but says nothing about compounds, stars or 'three names'.

    “For the most part, the current systems of nomenclature for genes and their products remain divergent even when the experts appreciate the underlying similarities.”

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Domain-specific

• Collaborative Maintenance
  • Its structured vocabulary of gene-function terms (each carrying a stable identifier of the form GO: followed by seven digits)

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    “The Gene Ontology (GO) is a structured vocabulary for use by the research community for the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences. The GO defines concepts/classes used to describe gene function and relationships between these concepts.”

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• Textual Definition
  • The Gene Ontology term "apoptotic process" (GO:0006915) shows the pattern in its designed form.

    This sourceThe founding Gene Ontology paper, presenting GO as a structured vocabulary that defines concepts/classes for describing gene function.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    “The GO defines concepts/classes used to describe gene function and relationships between these concepts.”

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