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Gene Ontology

ontology for describing the function of genes and gene products
Place Biological Ontologies Q135085
Gene Ontology
Gene Ontology's Official Website · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
biological ontologies, OBO Foundry ontology, knowledge graph[2][3]
Official website
geneontology.org[40]
More facts +14
Part of
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies, OBO Foundry, BLOD: Biomedical Linked Open Datasets[7][8][9]
Short name
GO
Catalog code
go-ontology, go[10][11]
Contributor to the creative work or subject
Pascale Gaudet, Tony Sawford, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Karen Christie, Nicole Vasilevsky, Valerie Wood, Suzi Aleksander, Dustin Ebert, Tanya Z Berardini, HyeongSik Kim, Martin Larralde, Raymond Lee
+15 moreKimberly Van Auken, Eric Douglass, Monica Munoz-Torres, Laurent-Philippe Albou, Paul D Thomas, Seth J. Carbon, Melanie Courtot, David P Hill, Charles Tapley Hoyt, James P. Balhoff, Christopher J. Mungall, Barbara Kramarz, Benjamin M. Good, Paola Roncaglia, David Osumi-Sutherland
[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
Copyright license
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International[6]
Copyright status
copyrighted
Described by source
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
Developer
Gene Ontology Consortium[5]
Has version, edition or translation
Gene Ontology release 2018-03-28, Gene Ontology release 2018-06-03, Gene Ontology release 2018-06-04, Gene Ontology release 2018-06-08, Gene Ontology release 2018-07-10, Gene Ontology release 2018-08-10, Gene Ontology release 2018-09-10, Gene Ontology release 2018-10-07, Gene Ontology release 2018-11-14, Gene Ontology release 2018-11-19, Gene Ontology release 2018-12-12, Gene Ontology release 2018-12-26
+14 moreGene Ontology release 2019-01-10, Gene Ontology release 2019-02-07, Gene Ontology release 2019-03-19, Gene Ontology release 2019-05-09, Gene Ontology release 2019-06-10, Gene Ontology release 2019-07-01, Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07, Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16, Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02, Gene Ontology release 2020-09-10, Gene Ontology release 2021-02-01, Gene Ontology release 2021-07-02, Gene Ontology release 2021-11-16, Gene Ontology release 2022-07-01
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Main Wikidata property
Gene Ontology ID
Main subject
gene, gene product, biological process, cellular component, molecular function[41][42][43][44]
Maintained by
Suzi Aleksander[4]
Replaces
Subcellular anatomy ontology
Social media followers
270 (257–270, n=3)
🏷️ Also known as
en Gene Ontology en GO ar أنطولوجيا الجينات el GO el Οντολογία Γονιδίων es Ontología Genica es Ontología Génica es Ontologia Génica es Gene Ontology es Ontologia del gen es Ontología del gen es Ontologia Genica fa هستی‌شناسی ژن fr GO he אונטולוגיית גנים hi hhz hi hhzh id Ontologi Gen it Ontologia genetica it GO
🔖 Identifiers · 20
OpenAlex ID
C2987395477
BARTOC ID
572
Datahub page
bioportal-go_x2
EDAM Ontology ID
data_1716
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl, purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MI_0448
Freebase ID
/m/052wxf
GitHub topic
geneontology
GitLab.com topic ID
gene+ontology
Golden ID (archived)
Gene_Ontology-39G9DK, Gene_Ontology
Identifiers.org prefix
go
Linked Open Data Cloud ID
bioportal-go_x2
Mastodon address
go@genomic.social (2022–present)
Show all 20 identifiers +8
MeSH descriptor ID
D063990
MeSH tree code
H01.158.273.343.249.099, H01.770.644.145.350.124, L01.224.050.375.480.500.500, L01.313.500.750.300.550.500.500, L01.462.750.245.945.079.500
NALT ID
295050
Ontobee ID
GO
Quora topic ID
Gene-Ontology
Reference URL
purl.obolibrary.org, bioportal.bioontology.org, www.uniprot.org
UMLS CUI
C1138831
X (Twitter) username
news4go (2009–present)

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🔗 Connections
Contributor to the creative work or subject 3
Benjamin M. Good, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Christopher J. Mungall
Main subject 3
gene, biological process, gene product
← Uses 2
inferred from Gene Ontology function hierarchy, inferred from GOA cell component → membrane
Created notable works 1
Michael Ashburner
Has these parts 1
reactant
Instance of 1
ontology
Part of 1
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies
← Depends on software 1
ubergraph
← FactGrid item ID 1
Salles-sous-Bois
← SNARC ID 1
Weston
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Summary

Gene Ontology is a biological ontologies[1].

Related Entities

Benjamin M. Good Charles Tapley Hoyt Christopher J. Mungall inferred from Gene Ontology function hierarchy inferred from GOA cell component → membrane ubergraph

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  3. [4] ↑ . obofoundry.org. obofoundry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  39. [40] ↑ . obofoundry.org. Retrieved . obofoundry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  42. [43] ↑ . geneontology.org. geneontology.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [44] ↑ . geneontology.org. geneontology.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ontobee ID → GO
    "Created claim: Ontobee ID: GO"
  2. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    EDAM Ontology ID → data_1716
    "Created claim: EDAM Ontology ID: data_1716, Matched to GO (#289759483) in EDAM Ontology #mix'n'mat"
  3. 5w ago · Lemoncheddar · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies, OBO Foundry, BLOD: Biomedical Linked Open Datasets
    Catalog code → go-ontology, go
    Instance of → biological ontologies, OBO Foundry ontology, knowledge graph
    "Merged from another item: Merge reviewed duplicate ontology representations; preserve statements, identifiers and provenance. OKG issue137."
  4. 9w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MI_0448
    "Created claim: Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MI_0448"
  5. 9w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contributor to the creative work or subject → Pascale Gaudet, Tony Sawford, Nicolas Matentzoglu +1
    Replaces → Subcellular anatomy ontology
    Main subject → gene, gene product, biological process +1
    Part of → Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies, OBO Foundry, BLOD: Biomedical Linked Open Datasets
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Instance of: bio-ontology"
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