Use and misuse of the gene ontology annotations

被引:344
作者
Rhee, Seung Yon [1 ]
Wood, Valerie [2 ]
Dolinski, Kara [3 ]
Draghici, Sorin [4 ]
机构
[1] Carnegie Inst Sci, Dept Plant Biol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[2] Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst, Cambridge CB10 1SA, England
[3] Princeton Univ, Carl Icahn Lab, Lewis Sigler Inst Integrat Genom, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[4] Wayne State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
关键词
D O I
10.1038/nrg2363
中图分类号
Q3 [遗传学];
学科分类号
071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The Gene Ontology (GO) project is a collaboration among model organism databases to describe gene products from all organisms using a consistent and computable language. GO produces sets of explicitly defined, structured vocabularies that describe biological processes, molecular functions and cellular components of gene products in both a computer-and human-readable manner. Here we describe key aspects of GO, which, when overlooked, can cause erroneous results, and address how these pitfalls can be avoided.
引用
收藏
页码:509 / 515
页数:7
相关论文
共 41 条
[41]   Whole-genome analysis of histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation in Arabidopsis [J].
Zhang, Xiaoyu ;
Clarenz, Oliver ;
Cokus, Shawn ;
Bernatavichute, Yana V. ;
Pellegrini, Matteo ;
Goodrich, Justin ;
Jacobsen, Steven E. .
PLOS BIOLOGY, 2007, 5 (05) :1026-1035