title: Get ready to GO! A biologist's guide to the Gene Ontology.
abstract: The Gene Ontology (GO) project provides a controlled vocabulary to facilitate high-quality functional gene annotation for all species. Genes in biological databases are linked to GO terms, allowing biologists to ask questions about gene function in a manner independent of species. This tutorial provides an introduction for biologists to the GO resources and covers three of the most common methods of querying GO: by individual gene, by gene function and by using a list of genes. [For the sake of brevity, the term 'gene' is used throughout this paper to refer to genes and their products (proteins and RNAs). GO annotations are always based on the characteristics of gene products, even though it may be the gene that is cited in the annotation.].
authors.affiliation: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK. jane@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lomax
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins