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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
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://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#OE2GO
Onto-Express is a web-based tool in the Onto-Tools suite that performs automated function profiling for a list of differentially expressed genes. However, Onto-Express does not support functional profiling for the organisms that do not have annotations in public domain, or use of custom (i.e. user-defined) ontologies. This limitation is also true for most of the other existing tools for functional profiling, which means that researchers working with uncommon organisms and/or new annotations or ontologies may be forced to construct such profiles manually. Onto-Express To Go (OE2GO) is a new tool added to the Onto-Tools ensemble to address these issues. OE2GO is built on top of OE to leverage its existing functionality. In OE2GO, the users now have an option to use either the Onto-Tools database as a source of functional annotations or provide their own annotations in a separate file. Currently, OE2GO supports annotation file in the Gene Ontology format. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: Onto-Express To Go (OE2GO) (RRID:SCR_008854) Copy
Data analysis service to predict the function of your favorite genes and gene sets. Indexing 1,421 association networks containing 266,984,699 interactions mapped to 155,238 genes from 7 organisms. GeneMANIA interaction networks are available for download in plain text format. GeneMANIA finds other genes that are related to a set of input genes, using a very large set of functional association data. Association data include protein and genetic interactions, pathways, co-expression, co-localization and protein domain similarity. You can use GeneMANIA to find new members of a pathway or complex, find additional genes you may have missed in your screen or find new genes with a specific function, such as protein kinases. Your question is defined by the set of genes you input. If members of your gene list make up a protein complex, GeneMANIA will return more potential members of the protein complex. If you enter a gene list, GeneMANIA will return connections between your genes, within the selected datasets. GeneMANIA suggests annotations for genes based on Gene Ontology term enrichment of highly interacting genes with the gene of interest. GeneMANIA is also a gene recommendation system. GeneMANIA is also accessible via a Cytoscape plugin, designed for power users. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: GeneMANIA (RRID:SCR_005709) Copy
http://www.arabidopsis.org/servlets/Search?type=keyword&action=new_search
TAIR Keyword Browser searches and browses for Gene Ontology, TAIR Anatomy, and TAIR Developmental stage terms, and allows you to view term details and relationships among terms. It includes links to genes, publications, microarray experiments and annotations associated with the term or any children terms. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: TAIR Keyword Browser (RRID:SCR_005687) Copy
http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/GO_form.shtml
With the MGI GO Browser, you can search for a GO term and view all mouse genes annotated to the term or any subterms. You can also browse the ontologies to view relationships between terms, term definitions, as well as the number of mouse genes annotated to a given term and its subterms. The MGI GO browser directly accesses the GO data in the MGI database, which is updated nightly. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: MGI GO Browser (RRID:SCR_006489) Copy
http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/BioinformaticsTools/Arraytrack/default.htm
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 23,2023. Software tool developed for ArrayTrack that takes a list of genes and identifies terms in Gene Ontology associated with those genes. GOFFA provides tools to view/access the following: GO term hierarchy, full listing of GO terms annotated with the genes associated with a given term, Fisher's exact test p-value providing the probability of identifying that many genes for a given term by chance alone, and relative enrichment factor (E-value) giving the enrichment of a GO term for genes in the submitted list relative to the frequency of genes assigned to that term from the full set of GOFFA annotated genes for a particular species.
Proper citation: Gene Ontology For Functional Analysis (GOFFA) (RRID:SCR_006484) Copy
A web-based browser for Gene Ontology terms and annotations, which is provided by the UniProtKB-GOA group at the EBI. It is able to offer a range of facilities including bulk downloads of GO annotation data which can be extensively filtered by a range of different parameters and GO slim set generation. The software for QuickGO is freely available under the Apache 2 license. QuickGO can supply GO term information and GO annotation data via REST web services.
Proper citation: QuickGO (RRID:SCR_004608) Copy
http://gdm.fmrp.usp.br/tools_bit.php
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 29, 2012. Gene Class Expression allows functional annotation of SAGE data using the Gene Ontology database. This tool performs searches in the GO database for each SAGE tag, making associations in the selected GO category for a level selected in the hierarchy. This system provides user-friendly data navigation and visualization for mapping SAGE data onto the gene ontology structure. This tool also provides graphical visualization of the percentage of SAGE tags in each GO category, along with confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: Gene Class Expression (RRID:SCR_005679) Copy
http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#Onto-Compare
Microarrays are at the center of a revolution in biotechnology, allowing researchers to screen tens of thousands of genes simultaneously. Typically, they have been used in exploratory research to help formulate hypotheses. In most cases, this phase is followed by a more focused, hypothesis driven stage in which certain specific biological processes and pathways are thought to be involved. Since a single biological process can still involve hundreds of genes, microarrays are still the preferred approach as proven by the availability of focused arrays from several manufacturers. Since focused arrays from different manufacturers use different sets of genes, each array will represent any given regulatory pathway to a different extent. We argue that a functional analysis of the arrays available should be the most important criterion used in the array selection. We developed Onto-Compare as a database that can provide this functionality, based on the GO nomenclature. Compare commercially available microarrays based on GO. User account required. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: Onto-Compare (RRID:SCR_005669) Copy
http://agbase.msstate.edu/cgi-bin/tools/goslimviewer_select.pl
Service to summarize the GO function associated with a data set using prepared GO Slim sets. The input is a tab separated list of gene product IDs and GO IDs.
Proper citation: GOSlimViewer (RRID:SCR_005665) Copy
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
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/DynGO.shtml
DynGO is a client-server application that provides several advanced functionalities in addition to the standard browsing capability. DynGO allows users to conduct batch retrieval of GO annotations for a list of genes and gene products, and semantic retrieval of genes and gene products sharing similar GO annotations (which requires more disk and memory to handle the semantic retrieval). The result are shown in an association tree organized according to GO hierarchies and supported with many dynamic display options such as sorting tree nodes or changing orientation of the tree. For GO curators and frequent GO users, DynGO provides fast and convenient access to GO annotation data. DynGO is generally applicable to any data set where the records are annotated with GO terms, as illustrated by two examples. Requirements: Java Platform: Windows compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: DynGO (RRID:SCR_007009) Copy
https://github.com/manveru/tkgo
Tk-GO is a GUI wrapping the basic functions of the GO AppHandle library from BDGP. GO terms are presented in an explorer-like browser, and behavior can be configured by altering Perl scripts. All available documentation is included in the download. Tk-GO uses the GO database (connects directly to the BDGP database by default) but is user-configurable. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible
Proper citation: Tk-GO (RRID:SCR_008855) Copy
http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#Onto-Design
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 6,2023. Many Laboratories chose to design and print their own microarrays. At present, the choice of the genes to include on a certain microarray is a very laborious process requiring a high level of expertise. Onto-Design database is able to assist the designers of custom microarrays by providing the means to select genes based on their experiment. Design custom microarrays based on GO terms of interest. User account required. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: Onto-Design (RRID:SCR_000601) Copy
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/cardiovascularproteomics/cpctools/strap/
Software program that automatically annotates a protein list with information that helps in the meaningful interpretation of data from mass spectrometry and other techniques. It takes protein lists as input, in the form of plain text files, protXML files (usually from the TPP), or Dat files from MASCOT search results. From this, it generates protein annotation tables, and a variety of GO charts to aid individual and differential analysis of proteomics data. It downloads information from mainly the Uniprot and EBI QuickGO databases. STRAP requires Windows XP or higher with at least version 3.5 of the Microsoft .NET Framework installed. Platform: Windows compatible
Proper citation: STRAP (RRID:SCR_005675) Copy
http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/Genes/GOBrowser
With the CGAP GO browser, you can browse through the GO vocabularies, and find human and mouse genes assigned to each term. GO data updated every few months. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: CGAP GO Browser (RRID:SCR_005676) Copy
http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#Onto-Express
The typical result of a microarray experiment is a list of tens or hundreds of genes found to be differentially regulated in the condition under study. Independently of the methods used to select these genes, the common task faced by any researcher is to translate these lists of genes into a better understanding of the biological phenomena involved. Currently, this is done through a tedious combination of searches through the literature and a number of public databases. We developed Onto-Express (OE) as a novel tool able to automatically translate such lists of differentially regulated genes into functional profiles characterizing the impact of the condition studied. OE constructs functional profiles (using Gene Ontology terms) for the following categories: biochemical function, biological process, cellular role, cellular component, molecular function and chromosome location. Statistical significance values are calculated for each category. We demonstrated the validity and the utility of this comprehensive global analysis of gene function by analyzing two breast cancer data sets from two separate laboratories. OE was able to identify correctly all biological processes postulated by the original authors, as well as discover novel relevant mechanisms (Draghici et.al, Genomics, 81(2), 2003). Other results obtained with Onto-Express can be found in Khatri et.al., Genomics. 79(2), 2002. Custom level of abstraction of the Gene Ontology. User account required. Platform: Online tool
Proper citation: Onto-Express (RRID:SCR_005670) Copy
Web-service providing access to database that brings together information from broad range of resources. Web application for functional annotation and statistical hypothesis testing. Provides tools for analysis of genomic and microarray data. Collection of tools include Bibliographic Information,Databases,Gene Annotation,Gene Regulation, Microarray,Proteins,Sequence Manipulation - Nucleic Acids,Sequence Manipulation - Protein, Systems Biology.
Proper citation: GeneTools (RRID:SCR_005663) Copy
http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/agriGO/
A web-based tool and database for the gene ontology analysis. Its focus is on agricultural species and is user-friendly. The agriGO is designed to provide deep support to agricultural community in the realm of ontology analysis. Compared to other available GO analysis tools, unique advantages and features of agriGO are: # The agriGO especially focuses on agricultural species. It supports 45 species and 292 datatypes currently. And agriGO is designed as an user-friendly web server. # New tools including PAGE (Parametric Analysis of Gene set Enrichment), BLAST4ID (Transfer IDs by BLAST) and SEACOMPARE (Cross comparison of SEA) were developed. The arrival of these tools provides users with possibilities for data mining and systematic result exploration and will allow better data analysis and interpretation. # The exploratory capability and result visualization are enhanced. Results are provided in different formats: HTML tables, tabulated text files, hierarchical tree graphs, and flash bar graphs. # In agriGO, PAGE and SEACOMPARE can be used to carry out cross-comparisons of results derived from different data sets, which is very important when studying multiple groups of experiments, such as in time-course research. Platform: Online tool, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: agriGO (RRID:SCR_006989) Copy
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