appears_in:
- agro
- chiro
- cl
- ecocore
- ecto
- envo
- maxo
- pcl
- pco
- planp
- uberon
- xpo
- zp
banana: GO
contact:
  email: suzia@stanford.edu
  github: suzialeksander
  name: Suzi Aleksander
  orcid: 0000-0001-6787-2901
contributor_extras:
- email: jmcl@ebi.ac.uk
  github: jamesamcl
  name: James Alastair McLaughlin
  orcid: 0000-0002-8361-2795
depends_on:
- cl
- ncbitaxon
- ro
- uberon
deprecated: false
description: The Gene Ontology project provides a controlled vocabulary to describe
  gene and gene product attributes in any organism.
download_json: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.json
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl
example: '0032571'
example_extras: []
homepage: http://geneontology.org/
keywords:
- annotation
- biocuration
- biological_process
- cellular_component
- dataplant
- expression data
- function
- gene
- gene functional annotation
- genome/gene
- go-term enrichment data
- knowledge representation
- life science
- life sciences, biology
- medicine
- molecular_function
- obo
- omics
- ontologies
- ontology
- ontology/terminology/nomenclature
- protein
- rna
- sequence annotation
- transcript
license: CC-BY-4.0
logo: https://obofoundry.org/images/go_logo.png
mappings:
  aberowl: GO
  agroportal: GO
  bartoc: '572'
  biocontext: GO
  bioportal: GO
  edam: '1176'
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.6xq0ee
  go: GO
  hl7: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.128
  integbio: nbdc00074
  miriam: go
  n2t: go
  ncbi: GO
  obofoundry: go
  ols: go
  ontobee: GO
  pathguide: '272'
  prefixcommons: go
  re3data: r3d100014165
  tib: go
  togoid: Go
  uniprot: DB-0037
  wikidata: P686
  wikidata.entity: Q135085
mastodon: go@genomic.social
name: Gene Ontology
namespace_in_lui: true
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: GO
prefix: go
providers:
- code: ''
  description: GO Browser
  homepage: http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/GO_form.shtml
  name: GO Browser
  uri_format: http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/GO.cgi?id=GO:$1
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/go:$1
- code: go_site
  description: A non-PURL link through the GO site
  homepage: http://www.geneontology.org
  name: GO Site Link
  uri_format: http://www.geneontology.org/GO:$1
- code: jax
  description: The JAX endpoint for exploring GO
  homepage: http://www.informatics.jax.org
  name: Jackson Laboratories
  uri_format: http://www.informatics.jax.org/vocab/gene_ontology/GO:$1
- code: miriam_obo_legacy
  description: An old URI style for MIRIAM + GO
  homepage: https://identifiers.org/
  name: MIRIAM OBO Legacy
  uri_format: http://identifiers.org/obo.go/GO:$1
- code: nextprot
  description: The neXtProt endpoint for exploring GO
  homepage: https://www.nextprot.org/
  name: neXtProt GO Browser
  uri_format: https://www.nextprot.org/term/GO:$1
- code: pantherdb
  description: GO Browser in PantherDB
  homepage: http://www.pantherdb.org/panther
  name: PatherDB
  uri_format: http://www.pantherdb.org/panther/category.do?categoryAcc=GO:$1
- code: purlorg
  name: PURL.org Legacy
  uri_format: http://purl.org/obo/owl/GO#GO_$1
- code: quickgo
  description: Gene Ontology browser from the EBI
  homepage: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/
  name: QuickGO
  uri_format: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/term/GO:$1
- code: quickgo.legacy
  description: QuickGO (Gene Ontology browser)
  homepage: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/
  name: QuickGO (Legacy URL)
  uri_format: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/GTerm?id=GO:$1
publications:
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1292
  pubmed: '41413728'
  title: The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2026
  year: 2026
- doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad031
  pubmed: '36866529'
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1113
  pmc: PMC7779012
  pubmed: '33290552'
  title: 'The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine'
  year: 2021
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1055
  pmc: PMC6323945
  pubmed: '30395331'
  title: 'The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong'
  year: 2019
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1179
  pmc: PMC4383973
  pubmed: '25428369'
  title: 'Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward'
  year: 2014
- doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-513
  pmc: PMC3733925
  pubmed: '23895341'
  title: 'Dovetailing biology and chemistry: integrating the Gene Ontology with the
    ChEBI chemical ontology'
  year: 2013
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1050
  pmc: PMC3531070
  pubmed: '23161678'
  title: Gene Ontology annotations and resources
  year: 2012
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr1028
  pmc: PMC3245151
  pubmed: '22102568'
  title: 'The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011'
  year: 2011
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp1018
  pmc: PMC2808930
  pubmed: '19920128'
  title: 'The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements'
  year: 2009
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh036
  pmc: PMC308770
  pubmed: '14681407'
  title: The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource
  year: 2004
- doi: 10.1038/75556
  pmc: PMC3037419
  pubmed: '10802651'
  title: 'Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. The Gene Ontology Consortium'
  year: 2000
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_$1
repository: https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology
synonyms:
- gobp
- gobpid
- gocc
- goccid
- gomf
- gomfid
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_$1
version: '2026-01-23'
