What is a mapping?

These files contain concepts from external database systems, such as Enzyme Commission numbers, UniProt keywords, or ProSite domains, indexed to identical, similar or related GO terms. The mappings are typically made manually; details can be found in the file headers.

Mappings should be used as a guide only.

Although we endeavour to make mappings as accurate as possible, we cannot guarantee that the mappings provided by the GO project are either complete or exact. This may be due to the absence of definitions from GO terms or from terms in some external systems; the GO ontologies and the external database may also have changed since the mapping was made. Please report any errors or suggest alternatives to the GO helpdesk.

Mapping Format

Mapping files are in the format:

More details can be found in the File Format Guide.

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The Mappings

Mappings of external databases to GO

Mapping	Last update	Download
COG functional categories Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) [external website]	June 2004	txt
EC enzymes Enzyme Commission (EC) [external website]	Monthly	txt
Expressed Gene Anatomy Database Expressed Gene Anatomy Database (EGAD) [external website]	Oct 2000	txt
E. coli Genome and Proteome E. coli Genome and Proteome (GenProtEC) [external website]	Dec 2000	txt
HAMAP families High-Quality Automated and Manual Annotation of Microbial Proteomes (HAMAP) [external website]	Monthly	txt
InterPro protein families, domains and functional sites InterPro [external website]	Monthly	txt
MIPS FunCat MIPS Functional Catalogue (FunCat) [external website]	Jan 2006	txt
MetaCyc pathways and reactions MetaCyc [external website]	Daily	txt
MultiFun cell function assignment schema classifications MultiFun [external website]	Dec 2005	txt
Pfam domains Pfam [external website]	Monthly	txt
PIRSF protein superfamilies PIRSF [external website]	Monthly	txt
PRINTS domains PRINTS [external website]	Monthly	txt
ProDom domains ProDom [external website]	Monthly	txt
ProSite domains ProSite [external website]	Monthly	txt
Reactome events and catalyst activities Reactome [external website]	Daily	txt
Rfam RNA families Rfam [external website]	May 2006	txt
SMART domains SMART [external website]	Monthly	txt
JCVI (TIGRFAM) protein families JCVI (TIGRFAM) protein families [external website]	Monthly	txt
JCVI roles JCVI roles [external website]	Jan 2004	txt
UniProt Knowledgebase [was SwissProt keyword] UniProt [external website]	Monthly	txt
UM-BBD enzyme IDs University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (UM-BBD) [external website]	Daily	txt
UM-BBD pathway IDs University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (UM-BBD) [external website]	Daily	txt
UniProt subcellular location UniProt [external website]	Monthly	txt
README summary of contents and file format		txt

N.B. Files listed as being updated monthly are completely regenerated during the monthly GOA release. Minor corrections to files are not mentioned here, and only comprehensive updates are listed.

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Mappings File Directory

The mappings file directory can be directly accessed with a web browser or by FTPing to ftp.geneontology.org:/pub/go/external2go/.

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