The GO Consortium
The GO Consortium is the set of model organism and protein databases and biological research communities actively involved in the development and application of the Gene Ontology.
Consortium Members
Members of the GO Consortium are expected to show a significant and ongoing commitment to the utilization and further development of the Gene Ontology. Full members should fulfill the following criteria:
- staff funded to work on GO
- regular submission of annotations to the GO Consortium resources [where applicable]
- regular and significant contribution towards the content of GO
- send one or more representatives to GO Consortium meetings
- be willing to organize and host a Consortium meeting
All databases which receive funding from the GO grant are considered full Consortium members.
Current GO Consortium Members
- Berkeley Bioinformatics and Ontology Project (BBOP) [external website]
- Drosophila informatics; development of GO database and software; Sequence Ontology development; National Center for Biomedical Ontology biomedical informatics research
- British Heart Foundation - University College London (BHF-UCL) [external website]
- The University College London-based annotation group of the Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative prioritises the comprehensive manual annotationof genes associated with the cardiovascular system. This effort is directed and supported by leading cardiovascular researchers, and is funded by the British Heart Foundation.
- dictyBase [external website]
- Informatics resource for the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum
- FlyBase [external website]
- Database for the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster
- GeneDB [external website] (part of the Pathogen Sequencing Unit [external website] at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
- Includes databases for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe [external website] and several protozoan parasites [external website], including Plasmodium falciparum, Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei.
- Gene Ontology Annotation @ EBI (GOA) [external website]
- Annotation of UniProt Knowledgebase [external website] (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL/PIR-PSD) and InterPro [external website] databases
- Gramene [external website]
- A comparative mapping resource for grains, including rice (Oryza)
- Mouse Genome Database (MGD) and Gene Expression Database (GXD) [external website]
- Databases for the mouse Mus musculus
- Rat Genome Database (RGD) [external website]
- Database for the rat Rattus norvegicus
- Reactome [external website]
- A knowledgebase of biological processes (formerly Genome Knowledgebase)
- Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) [external website]
- Database for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae; maintenance and public access of GO database and web interfaces
- The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) [external website]
- Database for the brassica family plant Arabidopsis thaliana
- Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) [external website]
- Data and tools for genomic research in a variety of model systems.
- The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) [external website]
- Databases on several bacterial species. Formerly known as The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).
- WormBase [external website]
- Database for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
- Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) [external website]
- Reference datasets and information on Danio rerio
GO Associates
GO Associates are groups who make a notable contribution to the GO project. Typically, GO Associate groups contribute significantly in at least one of the following ways:
- contribution of annotations to the GO database (via a full Consortium member)
- provision of open source applications for use with GO, and ongoing development and support for these applications
- collaboration on major Gene Ontology content development
Current GO Associates
- AgBase [external website]
- A curated, open-source, web-accessible resource for functional analysis of agricultural plant and animal gene products
- CGD: The Candida Genome Database [external website]
- A resource for genomic sequence data and gene and protein information for Candida albicans
- Muscle TRAIT [external website]
- An integrated database of transcripts expressed in human skeletal muscle
- Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) consortium [external website]
- A collaboration for the development of annotation resources for researchers studying the genomics of plant-associated microbes
FAQ
How do I submit my annotations?
Please contact cherry@stanford.edu (Mike Cherry) and the GO helpdesk for more information.
How do I submit my GO tool?
The GO tools submission page has full details on how to have your tool added to the Gene Ontology website.
How can I contribute to GO content?
See the tutorial on submitting suggestions to GO using SourceForge.
