Background reading on Ontologies, the Gene Ontology and Annotation
General
- Overview of the Gene Ontology and Annotations
- Ten Quick Tips for Using the Gene Ontology
- The Gene Ontology Handbook
Evidence codes
Taxon constraints
- Taxon constraint paper (Deegan et al. 2010)
- Wiki documentation on taxon constraints TO BE REVIEWED
Relations
- Relations used in GO - TO BE REVIEWED
- Annotation_Relations
Relations ontology
- Relations in the Gene Ontology Overview
- RO paper (Smith et al. 2005)
- Browse RO in the Ontology Lookup Service browser
Further reading
Formal ontology and the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
- Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies: A training course in eight lectures by Barry Smith
- An Introduction to Ontology: From Aristotle to the Universal Core: Araining course in eight lectures by Barry Smith
- Basic Formal Ontology Website
OBO Foundry
Presentations
- GO intro slides - Suzi Lewis & Pascale Gaudet, October 2017
- GO overview - Feb 2011
- General structure of GO from 2010 Geneva annotation camp
Review Status
Last reviewed: April 11, 2019