On ontologies for biologists: the Gene Ontology--untangling the web.

@article{citeulike:100298, abstract = {The mantra of the 'post-genomic' era is 'gene function'. Yet surprisingly little attention has been given to how functional and other information concerning genes is to be captured, made accessible to biologists or structured in a computable form. The aim of the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium is to provide a framework for both the description and the organisation of such information. The GO Consortium is presently concerned with three structured controlled vocabularies which can be used to describe three discrete biological domains, building structured vocabularies which can be used to describe the molecular function, biological roles and cellular locations of gene products.}, address = {Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and EMBL--European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.}, author = {Ashburner, M. and Lewis, S. }, citeulike-article-id = {100298}, issn = {1528-2511}, journal = {Novartis Found Symp}, keywords = {bioinformatics, database, geneontology, go}, posted-at = {2008-05-28 09:36:40}, priority = {4}, title = {On ontologies for biologists: the Gene Ontology--untangling the web.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12539950}, volume = {247}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:100298 L3 - citeulike-article-id:100298 TI - On ontologies for biologists: the Gene Ontology--untangling the web. JF - Novartis Found Symp VL - 247 AD - Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and EMBL--European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. SN - 1528-2511 N2 - The mantra of the 'post-genomic' era is 'gene function'. Yet surprisingly little attention has been given to how functional and other information concerning genes is to be captured, made accessible to biologists or structured in a computable form. The aim of the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium is to provide a framework for both the description and the organisation of such information. The GO Consortium is presently concerned with three structured controlled vocabularies which can be used to describe three discrete biological domains, building structured vocabularies which can be used to describe the molecular function, biological roles and cellular locations of gene products. KW - bioinformatics KW - database KW - geneontology KW - go AU - Ashburner, M AU - Lewis, S PY - 2002/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12539950 ER -