The Ontology of the Gene Ontology (2003) [49 citations — 10 self]
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author = {Barry Smith and Jennifer Williams and Steffen Schulze-kremer},
title = {The Ontology of the Gene Ontology},
booktitle = {},
year = {2003},
pages = {609--613}
}
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INTRODUCTION One of the most important tools for the representation and processing of information about gene products and functions is the Gene Ontology (GO). GO is being developed in tandem with work on a variety of biological databases within the framework of the umbrella project OBO (for: open biological ontologies) . It provides a controlled vocabulary for the description of cellular components, molecular functions, and biological processes. Representatives from a number of groups working on model organism databases, including FlyBase (Drosophila), the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD), initiated the Gene Ontology project in 1998 in order to provide a common reference framework for the associated controlled vocabularies. As of June 19, 2003 GO contains 1297 component, 5396 function and 7290 process terms. The total number of GO informal term definitions is 11020. Terms are organized in parent-child hierarchies, indicating either that
