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http://www.evidenceontology.org

A controlled vocabulary that describes types of scientific evidence within the realm of biological research that can arise from laboratory experiments, computational methods, manual literature curation, and other means. Researchers can use these types of evidence to support assertions about research subjects that result from scientific research, such as scientific conclusions, gene annotations, or other statements of fact. ECO comprises two high-level classes, evidence and assertion method, where evidence is defined as a type of information that is used to support an assertion, and assertion method is defined as a means by which a statement is made about an entity. Together evidence and assertion method can be combined to describe both the support for an assertion and whether that assertion was made by a human being or a computer. However, ECO can not be used to make the assertion itself; for that, one would use another ontology, free text description, or other means. ECO was originally created around the year 2000 to support gene product annotation by the Gene Ontology. Today ECO is used by many groups concerned with provenance in scientific research. ECO is used in AmiGO 2

Proper citation: ECO (RRID:SCR_002477) Copy   

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http://www.bioguo.org/AnimalTFDB/

A comprehensive transcription factor (TF) database in which they identified and classified all the genome-wide TFs in 50 sequenced animal genomes (Ensembl release version 60). In addition to TFs, it also collects transcription co-factors and chromatin remodeling factors of those genomes, which play regulatory roles in transcription. Here they defined the TFs as proteins containing a sequence-specific DNA-binding domain (DBD) and regulating target gene expression. Currently, the AnimalTFDB classifies all the animal TFs into 72 families according to their conserved DBDs. Gene lists of transcription factors, transcription co-factors and chromatin remodeling factors of each species are available for downloading., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: AnimalTFDB (RRID:SCR_001624) Copy   

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http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/amp/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented November 4, 2015. Web application based on the TM4 Microarray Software Suite to provide a means of normalization and analysis of microarray data. Users can upload data in the form of Affymetrix CEL files, and define an analysis pipeline by selecting several intuitive options. It performs data normalization (eg RMA), basic statistical analysis (eg t-test, ANOVA), and analysis of annotation using gene classification (eg Gene Ontology term assignment). The analysis are performed without user intervention and the results are presented in a web-based summary that allows data to be downloaded in a variety of formats compatible with further directed analysis.

Proper citation: Automated Microarray Pipeline (RRID:SCR_001219) Copy   

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http://www.btool.org/WegoLoc

Data analysis service that predicts protein subcellular localizations of animal, fungal, plant, and human proteins based on sequence similarity and gene ontology information.

Proper citation: WegoLoc (RRID:SCR_001402) Copy   

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http://pstiing.icr.ac.uk/

A publicly accessible knowledgebase about protein-protein, protein-lipid, protein-small molecules, ligand-receptor interactions, receptor-cell type information, transcriptional regulatory and signal transduction modules relevant to inflammation, cell migration and tumourigenesis. It integrates in-house curated information from the literature, biochemical experiments, functional assays and in vivo studies, with publicly available information from multiple and diverse sources across human, rat, mouse, fly, worm and yeast. The knowledgebase allowing users to search and to dynamically generate visual representations of protein-protein interactions and transcriptional regulatory networks. Signalling and transcriptional modules can also be displayed singly or in combination. This allow users to identify important "cross-talks" between signalling modules via connections with key components or "hubs". The knowledgebase will facilitate a "systems-wide" understanding across many protein, signalling and transcriptional regulatory networks triggered by multiple environmental cues, and also serve as a platform for future efforts to computationally and mathematically model the system behavior of inflammatory processes and tumourigenesis.

Proper citation: pSTIING (RRID:SCR_002045) Copy   

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http://discover.nci.nih.gov/gominer/

GoMiner is a tool for biological interpretation of "omic" data including data from gene expression microarrays. Omic experiments often generate lists of dozens or hundreds of genes that differ in expression between samples, raising the question, What does it all mean biologically? To answer this question, GoMiner leverages the Gene Ontology (GO) to identify the biological processes, functions and components represented in these lists. Instead of analyzing microarray results with a gene-by-gene approach, GoMiner classifies the genes into biologically coherent categories and assesses these categories. The insights gained through GoMiner can generate hypotheses to guide additional research. GoMiner displays the genes within the framework of the Gene Ontology hierarchy in two ways: * In the form of a tree, similar to that in AmiGO * In the form of a "Directed Acyclic Graph" (DAG) The program also provides: * Quantitative and statistical analysis * Seamless integration with important public databases GoMiner uses the databases provided by the GO Consortium. These databases combine information from a number of different consortium participants, include information from many different organisms and data sources, and are referenced using a variety of different gene product identification approaches.

Proper citation: GoMiner (RRID:SCR_002360) Copy   

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http://bc02.iis.sinica.edu.tw/gobu/manual/index.html

Gene Ontology Browsing Utility (GOBU) (GOBU) is a Java-based software program for integrating biological annotation catalogs under an extendable software architecture. Users may interact with the Gene Ontology and user-defined hierarchy data of genes, and then use its plugins to (and not limited to) (1) browse the GO hierarchy with user defined data, (2) browse GO-oriented expression levels in the user data, (3) compute GO enrichment, and/or (4) customize data reporting. A set of classes and utility functions has been established so that a customized program can be made as a plugin or a command-line tool that programmically manipulate the Gene Ontology and specified user data. See the source code repository for examples. Reference Lin WD, Chen YC, Ho JM, Hsiao CD. GOBU: Toward an Integration Interface for Biological Objects. Journal of Information Science and Engineering. 2006 22(1):19-29. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: Gene Ontology Browsing Utility (GOBU) (RRID:SCR_005662) Copy   

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http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/

The OWL API is a Java API and reference implementation for creating, manipulating and serializing OWL Ontologies. The latest version of the API is focused towards OWL 2. The OWLAPI underpins ontology browsing and editing tools and platforms such as SWOOP and Protege4. Note that this API, or any other OWL-based API, can be used without an integrated OWL parser if you download a pre-converted OWL file generated from OBO. See OBO Ontologies List for all OBO ontologies converted to OWL (we do not list the full complement of OWL-based APIs here, only those of direct relevance to GO). The OWL API includes the following components: * An API for OWL 2 and an efficient in-memory reference implementation * RDF/XML parser and writer * OWL/XML parser and writer * OWL Functional Syntax parser and writer * Turtle parser and writer * KRSS parser * OBO Flat file format parser * Reasoner interfaces for working with reasoners such as FaCT++, HermiT, Pellet and Racer Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: OWL API (RRID:SCR_005734) Copy   

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http://dbserv2.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:8080/onex/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 6,2023. Web-based application that integrates versions of 16 life science ontologies including the Gene Ontology, NCI Thesaurus and selected OBO ontologies with data leading back to 2002 in a common repository to explore ontology changes. It allows to study and apply the evolution of these integrated ontologies on three different levels. It provides global ontology evolution statistics and ontology-specific evolution trends for concepts and relationships and it allows the migration of annotations in case a new ontology version was released

Proper citation: OnEx - Ontology Evolution Explorer (RRID:SCR_000602) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/categoryCompare.html

A software package for meta-analysis of high-throughput experiments using feature annotations. It calculates significant annotations (categories) in each of two (or more) feature (i.e. gene) lists, determines the overlap between the annotations, and returns graphical and tabular data about the significant annotations and which combinations of feature lists the annotations were found to be significant. Interactive exploration is facilitated through the use of RCytoscape (heavily suggested).

Proper citation: categoryCompare (RRID:SCR_001223) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/globaltest.html

A software package that tests groups of covariates (or features) for association with a response variable. The package implements the test with diagnostic plots and multiple testing utilities, along with several functions to facilitate the use of this test for gene set testing of GO and KEGG terms.

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http://aclame.ulb.ac.be/Classification/mego.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. Gene Ontology dedicated to the functions of mobile genetic elements. The terms defined are used to annotate phage and plasmid protein families in ACLAME. Note: The phage ontology PhiGO has now been incorporated in MeGO and can thus be accessed in MeGO version 1.0 and up.

Proper citation: MeGO (RRID:SCR_000110) Copy   

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http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/perl/gennav.pl

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. GenNav searches GO terms and annotated gene products, and provides a graphical display of a term's position in the GO DAG.

Proper citation: GenNav (RRID:SCR_000147) Copy   

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https://scicrunch.org/resolver/SCR_002250

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented Jul 19, 2024. Metadatabase manually curated that provides web accessible tools related to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Used as informative directory for multi-omic data analysis.

Proper citation: OMICtools (RRID:SCR_002250) Copy   

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http://www.cmhd.ca/genetrap/

Generate gene trap insertions using mutagenic polyA trap vectors, followed by sequence tagging to develop a library of mutagenized ES cells freely available to the scientific community. This library is searchable by sequence or key word searches including gene name or symbol, chromosome location, or Gene Ontology (GO) terms. In addition,they offer a custom email alert service in which researchers are able to submit search criteria. Researchers will receive automated e-mail notification of matching gene trap clones as they are entered into the library and database. The resource features the use of complementary second and third generation polyA trap vectors developed by the Stanford lab and the laboratory of Professor Yasumasa Ishida of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan to mutagenize murine embryonic stem (ES) cells. CMHD gene trap clones are distributed by the Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository(CMMR). Information about ordering, services, and pricing can be found on their web site (http://www.cmmr.ca/services/index.html)., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.

Proper citation: Centre for Modeling Human Disease Gene Trap Resource (RRID:SCR_002785) Copy   

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http://bioportal.bioontology.org/

Open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides access via Web browsers and Web services to ontologies. It supports ontologies in OBO format, OWL, RDF, Rich Release Format (RRF), Protege frames, and LexGrid XML. Functionality includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies as well as to comment on, and create mappings for ontologies. Any registered user can submit an ontology. The NCBO Annotator and NCBO Resource Index can also be accessed via BioPortal. Additional features: * Add Reviews: rate the ontology according to several criteria and describe your experience using the ontology. * Add Mappings: submit point-to-point mappings or upload bulk mappings created with external tools. Notification of new Mappings is RSS-enabled and Mappings can be browsed via BioPortal and accessed via Web services. * NCBO Annotator: Tool that tags free text with ontology terms. NCBO uses the Annotator to generate ontology annotations, creating an ontology index of these resources accessible via the NCBO Resource Index. The Annotator can be accessed through BioPortal or directly as a Web service. The annotation workflow is based on syntactic concept recognition (using the preferred name and synonyms for terms) and on a set of semantic expansion algorithms that leverage the ontology structure (e.g., is_a relations). * NCBO Resource Index: The NCBO Resource Index is a system for ontology based annotation and indexing of biomedical data; the key functionality of this system is to enable users to locate biomedical data linked via ontology terms. A set of annotations is generated automatically, using the NCBO Annotator, and presented in BioPortal. This service uses a concept recognizer (developed by the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan) to produce a set of annotations and expand them using ontology is_a relations. * Web services: Documentation on all Web services and example code is available at: BioPortal Web services.

Proper citation: BioPortal (RRID:SCR_002713) Copy   

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http://www.gramene.org

Curated, open-source, integrated data resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species to facilitate the study of cross-species comparisons using information generated from projects supported by public funds. It currently hosts annotated whole genomes in over two dozen plant species and partial assemblies for almost a dozen wild rice species in the Ensembl browser, genetic and physical maps with genes, ESTs and QTLs locations, genetic diversity data sets, structure-function analysis of proteins, plant pathways databases (BioCyc and Plant Reactome platforms), and descriptions of phenotypic traits and mutations. The web-based displays for phenotypes include the Genes and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) modules. Sequence based relationships are displayed in the Genomes module using the genome browser adapted from Ensembl, in the Maps module using the comparative map viewer (CMap) from GMOD, and in the Proteins module displays. BLAST is used to search for similar sequences. Literature supporting all the above data is organized in the Literature database. In addition, Gramene now hosts a variety of web services including a Distributed Annotation Server (DAS), BLAST and a public MySQL database. Twice a year, Gramene releases a major build of the database and makes interim releases to correct errors or to make important updates to software and/or data. Additionally you can access Gramene through an FTP site.

Proper citation: Gramene (RRID:SCR_002829) Copy   

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http://gemdock.life.nctu.edu.tw/3D-Interologs

Database of physical protein-protein interactions across multiple genomes. Based on 3D-domain interolog mapping and a scoring function, protein-protein interactions are inferred by using three-dimensional (3D) structure heterodimers to search the UniProt database. For a query protein, the database utilizes BLAST to identify homologous proteins and the interacting partners from multiple species. Based on the scoring function and structure complexes, it provides the statistic significances, the interacting models (e.g. hydrogen bonds and conserved amino acids), and functional annotations of interacting partners of a query protein. The identification of orthologous proteins of multiple species allows the study of protein-protein evolution, protein functions, and cross-referencing of proteins.

Proper citation: 3D-Interologs (RRID:SCR_003101) Copy   

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http://www.bioperl.org

BioPerl is a community effort to produce Perl code which is useful in biology. This toolkit of perl modules is useful in building bioinformatics solutions in Perl. It is built in an object-oriented manner so that many modules depend on each other to achieve a task. The collection of modules in the bioperl-live repository consist of the core of the functionality of bioperl. Additionally auxiliary modules for creating graphical interfaces (bioperl-gui), persistent storage in RDMBS (bioperl-db), running and parsing the results from hundreds of bioinformatics applications (Run package), software to automate bioinformatic analyses (bioperl-pipeline) are all available as Git modules in our repository. The BioPerl toolkit provides a library of hundreds of routines for processing sequence, annotation, alignment, and sequence analysis reports. It often serves as a bridge between different computational biology applications assisting the user to construct analysis pipelines. This chapter illustrates how BioPerl facilitates tasks such as writing scripts summarizing information from BLAST reports or extracting key annotation details from a GenBank sequence record. BioPerl includes modules written by Sohel Merchant of the GO Consortium for parsing and manipulating OBO ontologies. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: BioPerl (RRID:SCR_002989) Copy   

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http://cellfinder.de/about/ontology/

Structured vocabulary to organize cell-associated data and to place these data in clearly defined semantic relations to other biological facts. It describes cell types, their properties and origin and links this information to other existing ontologies like the Cell Ontology (CL), Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), Gene Ontology (GO), Mouse Anatomy and others using the top-level ontology BioTop.

Proper citation: CELDA Ontology (RRID:SCR_001601) Copy   

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