Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
The GO captures many aspects of functional annotations, but there are other alternative complementary sources of protein function information. For example, enzyme functional annotations are described in a range of resources from the Enzyme Commission...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
The specificity of knowledge that Gene Ontology (GO) annotations currently can represent is still restricted by the legacy format of the GO annotation file, a format intentionally designed for simplicity to keep the barriers to entry low and thus enc...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a formidable resource, but there are several considerations about it that are essential to understand the data and interpret it correctly. The GO is sufficiently simple that it can be used without deep understanding of its s...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
Gene Ontology-based semantic similarity (SS) allows the comparison of GO terms or entities annotated with GO terms, by leveraging on the ontology structure and properties and on annotation corpora. In the last decade the number and diversity of SS me...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
A biological experiment is the most reliable way of assigning function to a protein. However, in the era of high-throughput sequencing, scientists are unable to carry out experiments to determine the function of every single gene product. Therefore, ...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
Two avenues to understanding gene function are complementary and often overlapping: experimental work and computational prediction. While experimental annotation generally produces high-quality annotations, it is low throughput. Conversely, computati...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
Surveys of public sequence resources show that experimentally supported functional information is still completely missing for a considerable fraction of known proteins and is clearly incomplete for an even larger portion. Bioinformatics methods have...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a framework designed to represent biological knowledge about gene products' biological roles and the cellular location in which they act. Biocuration is a complex process: the body of scientific literature is large and selec...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
The Gene Ontology (GO) project is the largest resource for cataloguing gene function. The combination of solid conceptual underpinnings and a practical set of features have made the GO a widely adopted resource in the research community and an essent...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
The Gene Ontology (GO) provides a framework and set of concepts for describing the functions of gene products from all organisms. It is specifically designed for supporting the computational representation of biological systems. A GO annotation is an...