Acknowledgements
The GO Consortium would like to thank the following individuals:
- Monica Riley and Gretta Serres of GenProtEC [external website].
- Stan Letovsky of Cereon Genomics and the Genome Knowledge Enhancement Team at Monsanto [external website]'s Bangalore Research Center for allowing us to use the Arabidopsis controlled vocabularies they had developed.
- John Garavelli for his help in linking GO and the RESID database [external website].
- David States of the University of Michigan Medical School [external website] for contributing to the representation of hematopoiesis in the biological process ontology.
- Barry Smith and Anand Kumar of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science [external website] for their help with the formal structure of GO and its documentation.
- Robert Stevens, Chris Wroe and their colleagues of the Manchester Information Management Group [external website] for their long term help and advice in matters concerning ontology development.
- Lynda Groocock for assistance with the synaptic vesicle terms in the biological process ontology.
The GO Consortium would like to thank the Oxford University Press [external website] for permission to reproduce text from the Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology within the definitions of Gene Ontology terms.
The GO Consortium thanks SourceForge [external website] for hosting online discussions and downloads of GO software.
