Edith D. Wong

TL;DR: GO-CAM, a new framework for representing gene function that is more expressive than standard GO annotations, has been released, and users can now explore the growing repository of these models.

TL;DR: The Saccharomyces Genome Database is an encyclopedia of the yeast genome, its chromosomal features, their functions and interactions, and public access to these data is provided to researchers and educators via web pages designed for optimal ease of use.

TL;DR: The GO Consortium has launched a focused effort to provide comprehensive and detailed annotation of orthologous genes across a number of ‘reference’ genomes, including human and several key model organisms.

TL;DR: The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium is a community-based bioinformatics resource that classifies gene product function through the use of structured, controlled vocabularies and has been expanded not only to cover new areas of biology through focused interaction with experts, but also to capture greater specificity in all areas of the ontology.

TL;DR: The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium continues to develop, maintain and use a set of structured, controlled vocabularies for the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences and several new relationship types have been introduced and used to create links between and within the GO domains.