Who we are

The Gene Ontology Consortium is an international group of scientists with expertise in biology and computer science.

GOC meeting in Berkeley, 2019

Principal Investigators

Paul Thomas, University of Southern California
Paul Thomas,
University of Southern California Paul Sternberg, Caltech Paul Sternberg,
Caltech Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Christopher Mungall,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory J. Michael Cherry, Stanford University J. Michael Cherry,
Stanford University

Project leads

Pascale Gaudet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Pascale Gaudet,
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Overall Project Management
Ontology development
Data Quality Seth Carbon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Seth Carbon,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Architecture Kimberly van Auken, Caltech Kimberly van Auken,
Caltech
Annotation Huaiyu Mi, University of Southern California Huaiyu Mi,
University of Southern California
Phylogenetic Annotation Suzi Aleksander, Stanford University Suzi Aleksander,
Stanford University
User Support

GO contributors by Group

GO Central

Suzi A. Aleksander James Balhoff Seth Carbon J. Michael Cherry

Harold J. Drabkin Dustin Ebert Marc Feuermann Pascale Gaudet

Nomi L Harris David P Hill Raymond Lee Huaiyu Mi

Sierra Moxon Christopher J Mungall Anushya Muruganugan Tremayne Mushayahama

Paul W. Sternberg Paul D Thomas Kimberly Van Auken

AspGDB & CGD

• Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University

CACAO & EcoliWiki

• Deborah Siegele, Texas A&M University

Jolene Ramsey Deborah A. Siegele

dictyBase

• Rex Chisholm, Northwestern University

Rex L. Chisholm Petra Fey

DisProt, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

Maria Cristina Aspromonte Maria Victoria Nugnes Federica Quaglia Silvio Tosatto

Evidence & Conclusion Ontology (ECO)

Michelle Giglio Suvarna Nadendla

FlyBase

• Nick Brown, University of Cambridge
• Katja Roeper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Giulia Antonazzo Helen Attrill Gil dos Santos Steven Marygold

Victor Strelets Christopher J. Tabone Jim Thurmond Pinglei Zhou

Rossana Zaru

Functional Gene Annotation, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London (London, UK)

Saadullah H. Ahmed Praoparn Asanitthong Diana Luna Buitrago Meltem N. Erdol

Matthew C. Gage Mohamed Ali Kadhum Kan Yan Chloe Li Miao Long

Aleksandra Michalak Angeline Pesala Armalya Pritazahra Shirin C.C. Saverimuttu

Renzhi Su Kate E. Thurlow Ruth C. Lovering

GREEKC

Colin Logie

JaponicusDB, London, UK

Snezhana Oliferenko

Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)

• Cynthia Smith ORCID, The Jackson Laboratory

Karen Christie Lori Corbani Mary E Dolan Harold J Drabkin

David P Hill Li Ni Dmitry Sitnikov

PHI-base

Alayne Cuzick James Seager

Planteome

Laurel Cooper Justin Elser Pankaj Jaiswal

Plant Reactome

Parul Gupta Pankaj Jaiswal Sushma Naithani

PomBase

• Valerie Wood ORCID, University of Cambridge

Manuel Lera-Ramirez Kim Rutherford

Rat Genome Database (RGD)

• Anne E Kwitek ORCID, Medical College of Wisconsin

Jeffrey L. De Pons Melinda R. Dwinell G. Thomas Hayman Mary L. Kaldunski

Stanley J. F. Laulederkind Marek A. Tutaj Mahima Vedi Shur-Jen Wang

Reactome

• Peter D’Eustachio, New York University

Lisa Matthews

Rhea, Swiss-Prot group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Geneva, Switzerland)

• Alan Bridge ORCID, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Lucila Aimo Kristian Axelsen Nevila Hyka-Nouspikel Anne Morgat

Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), Department of Genetics, Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA)

• J. Michael Cherry ORCID, Stanford University
• Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University

Suzi A. Aleksander Stacia R. Engel Stuart R. Miyasato Robert S. Nash

Shuai Weng Edith D. Wong

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), Phoenix Bioinformatics (Newark, CA, USA)

• Tanya Berardini, Phoenix Bioinformatics

Erika Bakker Leonore Reiser

UniProt, Swiss-Prot group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Geneva, Switzerland)

• Alan Bridge ORCID, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Andrea Auchincloss Kristian Axelsen Ghislaine Argoud-Puy Marie-Claude Blatter

Emmanuel Boutet Lionel Breuza Cristina Casals-Casas Elisabeth Coudert

Anne Estreicher Maria Livia Famiglietti Marc Feuermann Arnaud Gos

Nadine Gruaz-Gumowski Chantal Hulo Nevila Hyka-Nouspikel Florence Jungo

Philippe Le Mercier Damien Lieberherr Patrick Masson Anne Morgat

Ivo Pedruzzi Lucille Pourcel Sylvain Poux Catherine Rivoire

Shyamala Sundaram

UniProt, EMBL-EBI, (Hinxton, UK)

• Alex Bateman ORCID, European Bioinformatics Institute
• Sandra Orchard ORCID, European Bioinformatics Institute

Aduragbemi Adesina Sucharitha Balu Emily Bowler-Barnett Emily Bowler-Barnett Hema Bye-A-Jee

David C J Carpentier Paul Denny Alexandr Ignatchenko Rizwan Ishtiaq

Dushyanth Jyothi Gun Antonia Nilsson Lock Yvonne Lussi Michele Magrane

Maria J. Martin Juan Jose Medina Kalpana Panneerselvam Pedro Raposo

Nadya Urakova Kate Warner Conny Wing-Heng Yu

University at Buffalo, Department of Biomedical Informatics (Buffalo, NY, USA)

Alexander D. Diehl

WormBase

• Paul Sternberg, Caltech

Juancarlos Chan Stavros Diamantakis Raymond Lee Paolo Nuin

Daniela Raciti Kimberly van Auken

Xenbase

• Aaron Zorn ORCID, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Malcolm Fisher Christina James-Zorn Virgilio Ponferrada

Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN)

• Monte Westerfield ORCID, University of Oregon

Sridhar Ramachandran Leyla Ruzicka

GO contributors emeriti

Find past contributors on our GOC papers:

• The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine (NAR, 2021)
• Annotation of gene product function from high-throughput studies using the Gene Ontology (Database (Oxford), 2019)
• The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong (NAR, 2019)
• Expansion of the Gene Ontology knowledgebase and resources (NAR, 2017)
• Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward (NAR, 2015)
• Gene Ontology annotations and resources (NAR, 2013)
• On the Use of Gene Ontology Annotations to Assess Functional Similarity among Orthologs and Paralogs: A Short Report (PLoS Comput Biol., 2012)
• The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011 (NAR, 2012)
• The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements (NAR, 2010)
• The Gene Ontology’s Reference Genome Project: a unified framework for functional annotation across species (PLoS Comput Biol., 2009)
• The Gene Ontology project in 2008 (NAR, 2008)
• The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2006 (NAR, 2006)
• The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource (NAR, 2004)

• Creating the gene ontology resource: design and implementation (Genome Res., 2001)

  Founders

Michael Ashburner, image By PLoS - PLoS, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4155078 Michael Ashburner Judith Blake Judith Blake Suzanna Lewis Suzanna Lewis