Gene ontology consortium

Research into so-called ontologies is also currently very active. Ontologies can be used to characterize the principal concepts in a particular discipline and how they relate one to another. Many people believe they are necessary if database annotation is to be made accessible to both people and software, but also in facilitating more effective and efficient data retrieval. The well-known Gene Ontology consortium, or GO, defines the term ontology as ... specifications of a relational vocabulary . In other words they are sets of defined terms like the sort that you would find in a dictionary, but the terms are networked. The terms in a given vocabulary are likely to be restricted to... 

Gene Ontology Consortium. Gene Ontology tool for the unification of biology. Nature Genet 2000 25 25-29. 

The Gene Ontology Consortium. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008, 36, D440-D444. 

Gene ontology Gene ontology consortium (http //www.geneontology.org)... 

Harris, M. A., Clark. J., Ireland, A., and Gene Ontology Consortium. (2004) The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource. Nucleic Acids Res. 32, D258-D261. 

Gene Ontology Consortium (2006) Nucleic Acids Research, 34, D322—326. 

Ashbumer, M., Ball, C.A., Blake, J.A., Botstein, D., et al. (2000) Gene Ontology tool for the unification of biology.The Gene Ontology Consortium. Nature Genetics,25,25-29. 

Gene Ontology Consortium Creating the gene ontology resource design and implementation. 

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