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Welcome to the Gene Ontology Consortium Wiki

Note that this wiki is intended for internal use by members of the GO Consortium. For general information about the Gene Ontology, please visit the Gene Ontology Website.

Resources for GO curators

• Annotation guidelines
• Annotation Relations
• Guide to GO Evidence Codes
• Noctua curation guide
• GitHub go-annotation repository

Annotation error reports

• GO rule report by contributing group
• GO rule report by source (this is the report of each submitted file)
• GOA error reports (ran twice a month 1st and 15th of the month)

Resources for ontology editors

• Ontology editors' manual
• GitHub go-ontology repository

GO releases

• The Release_Pipeline page contains the documentation for official GO releases. The official release should be used for any analyses using GO, as these are archived and these analyses can be reproduced.
• Rolling build of the Gene Ontology

Annotation file formats

• Annotations: GAF 2.2
• Annotated entities: GPI

GO release pipeline

• Release Pipeline
• GO release QC

Consortium Meetings

The GO consortium meets twice a year, alternating between American, European locations, and virtual meetings. Information about meetings can be found here: Consortium Meetings and Workshops. Meetings are also announced on the go-consortium mailing list.

Help pages for using wikis

• Mediawiki help
• Quick guide to formatting wiki text
• Guidelines for using this wiki

GO Consortium meeting photo - April 2023

Review Status

Last reviewed: July 25, 2024

Reviewed by: Pascale Gaudet