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GO Database Downloads

The GO Database, which comprises both ontology and annotation data, is built from the flat files available on the GO website, and can be downloaded in mySQL or RDF XML format.

  • Ontology and Annotation File Downloads
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Ontology and Annotation File Downloads

See the current annotations page to download the annotation data files submitted by each database, and the ontology file downloads page for the ontology files.

Download the GO ontology files and annotations
Format Download Updated
GO RDF-XML format, no IEA annotations
format guide
see the go_YYYYMMDD-assocdb.rdf-xml.gz file in the GO Database archives Weekly
mySQL format, no IEA annotations
format guide
see the go_YYYYMMDD-termdb.data.gz and go_YYYYMMDD-termdb.tables.tar.gz file in the GO Database archives Weekly
mySQL format, all annotations
format guide
see the go_YYYYMM-termdb.data.gz and go_YYYYMM-termdb.tables.tar.gz file in the GO Database archives Monthly

More information, including API documentation, schema diagrams and full descriptions of all tables, is available on the GO database page.

Ontology and Annotation File Archives

Archives of the monthly releases of the combined ontology and annotations files (in both XML and mySQL format) are available from the GO Database archives.

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