What is the Gene Ontology project?
•The Gene Ontology (GO) project
is a collaborative effort to address the need for consistent descriptions of
gene products in different databases.
•The project began as a
collaboration between three model organism databases, FlyBase
(Drosophila), the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD), in 1998.
•Since then, the GO Consortium
has grown to include many databases, including several of the world's major repositories for plant, animal
and microbial genomes.
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