title: WEGO: a web tool for plotting GO annotations.
abstract: Unified, structured vocabularies and classifications freely provided by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium are widely accepted in most of the large scale gene annotation projects. Consequently, many tools have been created for use with the GO ontologies. WEGO (Web Gene Ontology Annotation Plot) is a simple but useful tool for visualizing, comparing and plotting GO annotation results. Different from other commercial software for creating chart, WEGO is designed to deal with the directed acyclic graph structure of GO to facilitate histogram creation of GO annotation results. WEGO has been used widely in many important biological research projects, such as the rice genome project and the silkworm genome project. It has become one of the daily tools for downstream gene annotation analysis, especially when performing comparative genomics tasks. WEGO, along with the two other tools, namely External to GO Query and GO Archive Query, are freely available for all users at http://wego.genomics.org.cn. There are two available mirror sites at http://wego2.genomics.org.cn and http://wego.genomics.com.cn. Any suggestions are welcome at wego@genomics.org.cn.
authors.affiliation: James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310008, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Hongkun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zengjin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shengting
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ruiqiang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bolund
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D005796:Genes; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled