Understanding how and why the Gene Ontology and its annotations evolve: The GO within UniProt

GigaScience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Huntley, Rachael P ^a   Sawford, Tony ^a   Martin, Maria J ^a   O'Donovan, Claire ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annotation; Function prediction; Gene Ontology; Misinterpretation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; DNA BINDING; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHERITANCE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MANUAL ANNOTATION; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE REGULATION OF APOPTOTIC PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAXON RESTRICTION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84905166669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-3-4     Document Type: Review

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