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Computable knowledge regarding functions of genes and gene products. GO resources include biomedical ontologies that cover molecular domains of all life forms as well as extensive compilations of gene product annotations to these ontologies that provide largely species-neutral, comprehensive statements about what gene products do. Used to standardize representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases.
Proper citation: Gene Ontology (RRID:SCR_002811) Copy
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/GOlr
A public Solr index for the Gene Ontology. This index will replace some of the query functionality for GOOSE as well as become the new backend for AmiGO 2 and other services.
Proper citation: GOlr (RRID:SCR_003939) Copy
http://code.google.com/p/owltools/
OWLTools (aka OWL2LS - OWL2 Life Sciences) is a java API for accessing ontologies in either OBO or OWL. OWLTools provides a bio-ontologies friendly wrapper on top of the Manchester OWL API. It provides many features, including: * convenience methods for OBO-like properties such as synonyms, textual definitions, obsoletion, replaced_by * simple graph-like operations over ontologies * visualization using the QuickGO graphs libraries Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: OWLTools (RRID:SCR_005732) Copy
http://geneontology.org/docs/tools-overview/
Collection of tools developed by GO Consortium and by third parties. Tools are listed by category or alphabetically and continue to be improved and expanded.
Proper citation: Gene Ontology Tools (RRID:SCR_006941) Copy
http://amigo.geneontology.org/
Web tool to search, sort, analyze, visualize and download data of interest. Along with providing details of the ontologies, gene products and annotations, features a BLAST search, Term Enrichment and GO Slimmer tools, the GO Online SQL Environment and a user help guide.Used at the Gene Ontology (GO) website to access the data provided by the GO Consortium. Developed and maintained by the GO Consortium.
Proper citation: AmiGO (RRID:SCR_002143) Copy
http://search.cpan.org/~cmungall/go-db-perl/
Software resource that extends the functionality of go-perl (on which it depends) with GO Database access functionality. go-db-perl comes bundled with various scripts and a shell command line interface that can be used as standalone tools. Installation is more involved than for go-perl; you will need a MySQL database plus the requisite DBI and DBD Perl modules. Full installation instructions are included in the download. go-db-perl is in use both to drive AmiGO and internally within Ensembl. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: go-db-perl (RRID:SCR_005721) Copy
http://search.cpan.org/~cmungall/go-perl/
go-perl is a set of Perl modules for parsing, manipulating and exporting ontologies and annotations. It includes parsers for the OBO and GO gene association file formats. It has a graph-based object model with methods for graph traversal. For more details, see the documentation included with the modules. go-perl comes bundled with XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) transforms (which can also be used independently of Perl, provided you have files in OBO-XML format), as well as scripts that can be used as standalone tools. Installation should be simple, provided you have some experience with Perl and CPAN; see the INSTALL file for details. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: go-perl (RRID:SCR_005730) Copy
A collaborative ontology for the definition of sequence features used in biological sequence annotation. SO was initially developed by the Gene Ontology Consortium. Contributors to SO include the GMOD community, model organism database groups such as WormBase, FlyBase, Mouse Genome Informatics group, and institutes such as the Sanger Institute and the EBI. Input to SO is welcomed from the sequence annotation community. The OBO revision is available here: http://sourceforge.net/p/song/svn/HEAD/tree/ SO includes different kinds of features which can be located on the sequence. Biological features are those which are defined by their disposition to be involved in a biological process. Biomaterial features are those which are intended for use in an experiment such as aptamer and PCR_product. There are also experimental features which are the result of an experiment. SO also provides a rich set of attributes to describe these features such as polycistronic and maternally imprinted. The Sequence Ontologies use the OBO flat file format specification version 1.2, developed by the Gene Ontology Consortium. The ontology is also available in OWL from Open Biomedical Ontologies. This is updated nightly and may be slightly out of sync with the current obo file. An OWL version of the ontology is also available. The resolvable URI for the current version of SO is http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/so.owl.
Proper citation: SO (RRID:SCR_004374) Copy
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/GO-EXT
An extension of the Gene Ontology.
Proper citation: Gene Ontology Extension (RRID:SCR_010327) Copy
http://www.geneontology.org/GO.refgenome.shtml
The GO Consortium coordinates an effort to maximize and optimize the GO annotation of a large and representative set of key genomes, known as ''reference genomes''. The goal of the Reference Genome Annotation project is to completely annotate twelve reference genomes so that those annotations may be used to effectively seed the automatic annotation efforts of other genomes. With more and more genomes being sequenced, we are in the middle of an explosion of genomic information. The limited resources to manually annotate the growing number of sequenced genomes imply that automatic annotation will be the method of choice for many groups. 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. All GO annotations from this project are included in the gene association files that each group submits to GO. Annotations can also be viewed using the GO search engine and browser AmiGO. Annotated families can be viewed with the homolog set browser.
Proper citation: RefGenome (RRID:SCR_004263) Copy
OBO-Edit is an open source, platform-independent application written in Java for viewing and editing any OBO format ontologies. OBO-Edit is a graph-based tool; its emphasis on the overall graph structure of an ontology provides a friendly interface for biologists, and makes OBO-Edit excellent for the rapid generation of large ontologies focusing on relationships between relatively simple classes. The UI components are cleanly separated from the data model and data adapters, so these can be reused in other applications. The oboedit foward-chaining reasoner can also be used independently (for example, for traversing ontology graphs). OBO-Edit uses the OBO format flat file. See the GO wiki, http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/OBO-Edit:_Getting_the_Source_Code, for instructions on downloading the source code. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: OBO-Edit (RRID:SCR_005668) Copy
http://www.alliancegenome.org/
Organization that aims to develop and maintain sustainable genome information resources to promote understanding of the genetic and genomic basis of human biology, health, and disease. The Alliance is composed of FlyBase, Mouse Genome Database (MGD), the Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC), Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), Rat Genome Database (RGD), WormBase, and the Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN).
Proper citation: Alliance of Genome Resources (RRID:SCR_015850) Copy
http://www.psb.ugent.be/esb/PiNGO/
A Java-based tool to easily find unknown genes in a network that are significantly associated with user-defined target Gene Ontology (GO) categories. PiNGO is implemented as a plugin for Cytoscape, a popular open source software platform for visualizing and integrating molecular interaction networks. PiNGO predicts the categorization of a gene based on the annotations of its neighbors, using the enrichment statistics of its sister tool BiNGO. Networks can either be selected from the Cytoscape interface or uploaded from file. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: PiNGO (RRID:SCR_000692) Copy
COBrA is a Java-based ontology editor for bio-ontologies that distinguishes itself from other editors by supporting the linking of concepts between two ontologies, and providing sophisticated analysis and verification functions. In addition to the Gene Ontology and Open Biology Ontologies formats, COBrA can import and export ontologies in the Semantic Web formats RDF, RDFS and OWL. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: COBrA (RRID:SCR_005677) Copy
http://agbase.msstate.edu/cgi-bin/tools/goprofiler_select.pl
Service that provides a summary of GO annotations available for each species. The user provides a taxon id and GOProfiler displays the number of GO associations and the number of annotated proteins for that species. The results are listed by evidence code and a separate list of unannotated proteins is also provided.
Proper citation: GOProfiler (RRID:SCR_005683) Copy
http://www.patternlabforproteomics.org/
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented July 5, 2018. Gene Ontology Explorer (GOEx) combines data from protein fold changes with GO over-representation statistics to help draw conclusions in proteomic experiments. It is tightly integrated within the PatternLab for Proteomics project and, thus, lies within a complete computational environment that provides parsers and pattern recognition tools designed for spectral counting. GOEx offers three independent methods to query data: an interactive directed acyclic graph, a specialist mode where key words can be searched, and an automatic search. A recent hack included in GOEx is to load the sparse matrix index file directly into GOEx, instead of going through the report generation using the AC/T-fold methods. This makes it easy for GOEx to analyze any list of proteins as long as the list follows the index file format (described in manuscript) . Please note that if using this alternative strategy, there will be no protein fold information. Platform: Windows compatible
Proper citation: GOEx - Gene Ontology Explorer (RRID:SCR_005779) Copy
Biomedical Logical Programming (Blip) is a research-oriented deductive database and prolog application library for handling biological and biomedical data. It includes packages for advanced querying of ontologies and annotations. Blip underpins the Obol tool. Here are some distinguishing characteristics of Blip * Lightweight. Bloat-free: Blip only has as many modules as it needs to do its job. * Fast. * Declarative. Say what you want to do, not how you want to do it * Blip can be Query-oriented: specify your data sources and ask your query * Blip can be Application-oriented: it is designed to be used as an application library used by other bioinformatics tools * Mature and fully functional ontology module for handling both OBO-style ontologies and OWL ontologies. * Modules for handling biological sequences and sequence features. (currently limited functionality, added as needed) * A systems biology module for querying pathway and interaction data. (currently limited functionality, added as needed) * Relational database integration. SQL can be viewed as a highly restricted dialect of Prolog. Although the SWI-Prolog in-memory database is fast and scalable, sometimes it is nice to be able to fetch data from an external database. Blip contains a generic SQL utility module and predicate mappings for the GO database, Ensembl and Chado * Integration with a variety of bioinformatics file formats. SWI-Prolog has a variety of fast libraries for dealing with XML, RDF and tabular data files. Blip provides bridges from bio file formats encoded using these syntaxes into its native models. For other syntaxes, Blip seamlessly integrates other packages such as BioPerl and go-perl. Although these dependencies require extra installation, there is no point reinventing the wheel * Rapid development of web applications. Blip extends SWI-Prolog''''s excellent http support with a simple and powerful logical-functional-programming style application server, serval. This has been used to prototype a fully-featured next-generation replacement for the GO project amigo browser. * Scalable. Blip is not intended to be a toy system on toy data (although it is happy to be used as a toy if you like!). It is intended to be used as an application component and a tool operating on real-world biological and biomedical data Blip is written in SWI-Prolog, a fast, robust and scalable implementation of ISO Prolog. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: Blip: Biomedical Logic Programming (RRID:SCR_005733) Copy
http://www.ici.upmc.fr/cluego/
A Cytoscape plug-in that visualizes the non-redundant biological terms for large clusters of genes in a functionally grouped network. It can be used in combination with GOlorize. The identifiers can be uploaded from a text file or interactively from a network of Cytoscape. The type of identifiers supported can be easily extended by the user. ClueGO performs single cluster analysis and comparison of clusters. From the ontology sources used, the terms are selected by different filter criteria. The related terms which share similar associated genes can be combined to reduce redundancy. The ClueGO network is created with kappa statistics and reflects the relationships between the terms based on the similarity of their associated genes. On the network, the node colour can be switched between functional groups and clusters distribution. ClueGO charts are underlying the specificity and the common aspects of the biological role. The significance of the terms and groups is automatically calculated. ClueGO is easy updatable with the newest files from Gene Ontology and KEGG. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: ClueGO (RRID:SCR_005748) Copy
https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/LexEVS/LexGrid
LexGrid (Lexical Grid) provides support for a distributed network of lexical resources such as terminologies and ontologies via standards-based tools, storage formats, and access/update mechanisms. The Lexical Grid Vision is for a distributed network of terminological resources. It is the foundation of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology BioPortal interface and web-services, and can parse OBO format, as well as other formats such as OWL. Currently, there are many terminologies and ontologies in existence. Just about every terminology has its own format, its own set of tools, and its own update mechanisms. The only thing that most of these pieces have in common with each other is their incompatibility. This makes it very hard to use these resources to their full potential. We have designed the Lexical Grid as a way to bridge terminologies and ontologies with a common set of tools, formats and update mechanisms. The Lexical Grid is: * accessible through a set of common APIs * joined through shared indices * online accessible * downloadable * loosely coupled * locally extendable * globally revised * available in web-space on web-time * cross-linked The realization of this vision requires three interlocking components, which are: * Standards - access methods and formats need to be published and openly available * Tools - standards based tools must be readily available * Content - commonly used terminologies have to be available for access and download Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: LexGrid (RRID:SCR_006627) Copy
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.9/bioc/html/RamiGO.html
Software package with an R interface sending requests to AmiGO visualize, retrieving DAG GO trees, parsing GraphViz DOT format files and exporting GML files for Cytoscape. Also uses RCytoscape to interactively display AmiGO trees in Cytoscape.
Proper citation: RamiGO (RRID:SCR_006922) Copy
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