The GO project (II)
•The controlled vocabularies are
structured so
that they can
be queried at different levels.
•For example, you can use GO to
find all the gene products in the mouse genome that are involved in signal transduction, or you can zoom in
on all the receptor tyrosine kinases.
•This structure also allows
annotators to assign properties to genes or gene products at different levels, depending on the depth of
knowledge about that entity.
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