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How does GO work?
•What does the gene product do?
•Where and when does it act?
•Why does it perform these activities?
•GO uses “GO term”
to represent these concepts
•Each gene is
associated (annotated) with multiple “GO terms” to describe its
location and functions
•The information is
stored in the GO database
What
information might we want to capture about a gene product?
Adopted from
http://www.geneontology.org/