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http://geneontology.org/docs/tools-overview/

Collection of tools developed by GO Consortium and by third parties. Tools are listed by category or alphabetically and continue to be improved and expanded.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology Tools (RRID:SCR_006941) Copy   

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http://function.princeton.edu/GOLEM/index.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented July 7, 2017. Welcome to the home of GOLEM: An interactive, graphical gene-ontology visualization, navigation,and analysis tool on the web. GOLEM is a useful tool which allows the viewer to navigate and explore a local portion of the Gene Ontology (GO) hierarchy. Users can also load annotations for various organisms into the ontology in order to search for particular genes, or to limit the display to show only GO terms relevant to a particular organism, or to quickly search for GO terms enriched in a set of query genes. GOLEM is implemented in Java, and is available both for use on the web as an applet, and for download as a JAR package. A brief tutorial on how to use GOLEM is available both online and in the instructions included in the program. We also have a list of links to libraries used to make GOLEM, as well as the various organizations that curate organism annotations to the ontology. GOLEM is available as a .jar package and a macintosh .app for use on- or off- line as a stand-alone package. You will need to have Java (v.1.5 or greater) installed on your system to run GOLEM. Source code (including Eclipse project files) are also available. GOLEM (Gene Ontology Local Exploration Map)is a visualization and analysis tool for focused exploration of the gene ontology graph. GOLEM allows the user to dynamically expand and focus the local graph structure of the gene ontology hierarchy in the neighborhood of any chosen term. It also supports rapid analysis of an input list of genes to find enriched gene ontology terms. The GOLEM application permits the user either to utilize local gene ontology and annotations files in the absence of an Internet connection, or to access the most recent ontology and annotation information from the gene ontology webpage. GOLEM supports global and organism-specific searches by gene ontology term name, gene ontology id and gene name. CONCLUSION: GOLEM is a useful software tool for biologists interested in visualizing the local directed acyclic graph structure of the gene ontology hierarchy and searching for gene ontology terms enriched in genes of interest. It is freely available both as an application and as an applet.

Proper citation: GOLEM An interactive, graphical gene-ontology visualization, navigation, and analysis tool (RRID:SCR_003191) Copy   

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http://cbl-gorilla.cs.technion.ac.il/

A tool for identifying and visualizing enriched GO terms in ranked lists of genes. It can be run in one of two modes: * Searching for enriched GO terms that appear densely at the top of a ranked list of genes or * Searching for enriched GO terms in a target list of genes compared to a background list of genes.

Proper citation: GOrilla: Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis and Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_006848) Copy   

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http://www.psb.ugent.be/cbd/papers/BiNGO/Home.html

The Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool (BiNGO) is an open-source Java tool to determine which Gene Ontology (GO) terms are significantly overrepresented in a set of genes. BiNGO can be used either on a list of genes, pasted as text, or interactively on subgraphs of biological networks visualized in Cytoscape. BiNGO maps the predominant functional themes of the tested gene set on the GO hierarchy, and takes advantage of Cytoscape''''s versatile visualization environment to produce an intuitive and customizable visual representation of the results. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: BiNGO: A Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool (RRID:SCR_005736) Copy   

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http://www.dbfordummies.com/go.asp

Db for Dummies! is a small database that imports the Generic GO Slim. It allows data to be viewed in a tree. The Gene Ontology describes gene products in terms of their associated biological processes, cellular components and molecular functions. The Generic Slim Gene Ontology is a subset of the whole Gene Ontology. The slim version gives a broad overview and leaves out specific/fine grained terms. This example stores the slim version of the Gene Ontology (goslim_generic_obo) that can be downloaded from www.geneontology.org/GO.slims.shtml. Platform: Windows compatible

Proper citation: DBD - Slim Gene Ontology (RRID:SCR_005728) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.clemson.edu/G-SESAME/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 2,2025. G-SESAME contains a set of tools. They include: tools for measuring the semantic similarity of GO terms; tools for measuring the functional similarity of genes; and tools for clustering genes based on their GO term annotation information. Platform: Online tool, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: G-SESAME - Gene Semantic Similarity Analysis and Measurement Tools (RRID:SCR_005816) Copy   

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http://www.geneontology.org/

Computable knowledge regarding functions of genes and gene products. GO resources include biomedical ontologies that cover molecular domains of all life forms as well as extensive compilations of gene product annotations to these ontologies that provide largely species-neutral, comprehensive statements about what gene products do. Used to standardize representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology (RRID:SCR_002811) Copy   

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http://wego.genomics.org.cn/cgi-bin/wego/index.pl

Web Gene Ontology Annotation Plot (WEGO) is a simple but useful tool for plotting Gene Ontology (GO) annotation results. Different from other commercial software for chart creating, WEGO is designed to deal with the directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure of GO to facilitate histogram creation of GO annotation results. WEGO has been widely used in many important biological research projects, such as the rice genome project and the silkworm genome project. It has become one of the useful tools for downstream gene annotation analysis, especially when performing comparative genomics tasks. Platform: Online tool

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http://omicslab.genetics.ac.cn/GOEAST/

Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis Software Toolkit (GOEAST) is a web based software toolkit providing easy to use, visualizable, comprehensive and unbiased Gene Ontology (GO) analysis for high-throughput experimental results, especially for results from microarray hybridization experiments. The main function of GOEAST is to identify significantly enriched GO terms among give lists of genes using accurate statistical methods. Compared with available GO analysis tools, GOEAST has the following unique features: * GOEAST supports analysis for data from various resources, such as expression data obtained using Affymetrix, illumina, Agilent or customized microarray platforms. GOEAST also supports non-microarray based experimental data. The web-based feature makes GOEAST very user friendly; users only have to provide a list of genes in correct formats. * GOEAST provides visualizable analysis results, by generating graphs exhibiting enriched GO terms as well as their relationships in the whole GO hierarchy. * Note that GOEAST generates separate graph for each of the three GO categories, namely biological process, molecular function and cellular component. * GOEAST allows comparison of results from multiple experiments (see Multi-GOEAST tool). The displayed color of each GO term node in graphs generated by Multi-GOEAST is the combination of different colors used in individual GOEAST analysis. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GOEAST - Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis Software Toolkit (RRID:SCR_006580) Copy   

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http://www.yeastgenome.org/cgi-bin/GO/goSlimMapper.pl

The GO Slim Mapper (aka GO Term Mapper) maps the specific, granular GO terms used to annotate a list of budding yeast gene products to corresponding more general parent GO slim terms. Uses the SGD GO Slim sets. Three GO Slim sets are available at SGD: * Macromolecular complex terms: protein complex terms from the Cellular Component ontology * Yeast GO-Slim: GO terms that represent the major Biological Processes, Molecular Functions, and Cellular Components in S. cerevisiae * Generic GO-Slim: broad, high level GO terms from the Biological Process and Cellular Component ontologies selected and maintained by the Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC) Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: SGD Gene Ontology Slim Mapper (RRID:SCR_005784) Copy   

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http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/BioinformaticsTools/Arraytrack/default.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 23,2023. Software tool developed for ArrayTrack that takes a list of genes and identifies terms in Gene Ontology associated with those genes. GOFFA provides tools to view/access the following: GO term hierarchy, full listing of GO terms annotated with the genes associated with a given term, Fisher's exact test p-value providing the probability of identifying that many genes for a given term by chance alone, and relative enrichment factor (E-value) giving the enrichment of a GO term for genes in the submitted list relative to the frequency of genes assigned to that term from the full set of GOFFA annotated genes for a particular species.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology For Functional Analysis (GOFFA) (RRID:SCR_006484) Copy   

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http://ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/www/GO.tools_by_type.term_enrichment.shtml#gobean

GoBean is a Java application for gene ontology enrichment analysis. It utilizes the NetBeans platform framework. Features * Graphical comparison of multiple enrichment analysis results * Versatile filter facility for focused analysis of enrichment results * Effective exploitation of the graphical/hierarchical structure of GO * Evidence code based association filtering * Supports local data files such as the ontology obo file and gene association files * Supports late enrichment methods and multiple testing corrections * Built-in ID conversion for common species using Ensembl biomart service Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible

Proper citation: GoBean - a Java application for Gene Ontology enrichment analysis (RRID:SCR_005808) Copy   

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http://bc02.iis.sinica.edu.tw/gobu/manual/index.html

Gene Ontology Browsing Utility (GOBU) (GOBU) is a Java-based software program for integrating biological annotation catalogs under an extendable software architecture. Users may interact with the Gene Ontology and user-defined hierarchy data of genes, and then use its plugins to (and not limited to) (1) browse the GO hierarchy with user defined data, (2) browse GO-oriented expression levels in the user data, (3) compute GO enrichment, and/or (4) customize data reporting. A set of classes and utility functions has been established so that a customized program can be made as a plugin or a command-line tool that programmically manipulate the Gene Ontology and specified user data. See the source code repository for examples. Reference Lin WD, Chen YC, Ho JM, Hsiao CD. GOBU: Toward an Integration Interface for Biological Objects. Journal of Information Science and Engineering. 2006 22(1):19-29. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://www.patternlabforproteomics.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented July 5, 2018. Gene Ontology Explorer (GOEx) combines data from protein fold changes with GO over-representation statistics to help draw conclusions in proteomic experiments. It is tightly integrated within the PatternLab for Proteomics project and, thus, lies within a complete computational environment that provides parsers and pattern recognition tools designed for spectral counting. GOEx offers three independent methods to query data: an interactive directed acyclic graph, a specialist mode where key words can be searched, and an automatic search. A recent hack included in GOEx is to load the sparse matrix index file directly into GOEx, instead of going through the report generation using the AC/T-fold methods. This makes it easy for GOEx to analyze any list of proteins as long as the list follows the index file format (described in manuscript) . Please note that if using this alternative strategy, there will be no protein fold information. Platform: Windows compatible

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http://meme.nbcr.net/meme/cgi-bin/gomo.cgi

Gene Ontology for Motifs (GOMO) is an alignment- and threshold-free comparative genomics approach for assigning functional roles to DNA regulatory motifs from DNA sequence. The algorithm detects associations between a user-specified DNA regulatory motif (expressed as a position weight matrix; PWM) and Gene Ontology terms. The original method for predicting the roles of transcription factors (TFs starts with a PWM motif describing the DNA-binding affinity of the TF. GOMO uses the PWM to score the promoter region of each gene in the genome for its likelihood to be bound by the TF. The resulting ''''affinity'''' scores are then used to test each term in the Gene Ontology for association with high-scoring genes. The algorithm was subsequently extended to leverage conserved signals using multiple, related species in a comparative approach, which greatly improves the resulting annotations. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cardiovasculargeneontology/

Full Gene Ontology annotation to genes associated with cardiovascular processes. Every GO annotation made, is attributed to an identified source, such as a publication identifier (PMID), and an indication of the type of evidence which supports the association between the gene product and the GO term. Over 4,000 cardiovascular associated genes have been identified. A variety of tools have been provided to enable cardiovascular scientists to review the annotation of their ''''favorite'''' gene and suggest information that may be missing, inaccurate or incomplete in these annotations. Annotation suggestions can be sent through the feedback form or by email. The Gene Ontology (GO) vocabulary is the established standard for the functional annotation of gene products. By using GO to curate scientific literature and by integrating results from high-quality high-throughput experiments they will create an information-rich resource for the cardiovascular-research community, enabling researchers to rapidly evaluate and interpret existing data and generate hypotheses to guide future research.

Proper citation: Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative (RRID:SCR_004795) Copy   

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http://compbio.charite.de/contao/index.php/ontologizer2.html

The Ontologizer is a Java webstart application for GO term enrichment analysis that provides browsing and graph visualization capabilities. The Ontologizer allows users to analyze data with the standard Fisher exact test and also the parent-child method and topology methods. The tool can be started directly from the web using Java webstart. For graph visualizations, users need to install the GraphViz library. The tool is freely available to all, and source code is available at SourceForge. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: Ontologizer (RRID:SCR_005801) Copy   

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http://pathways.mcdb.ucla.edu/algal/

Tools to search gene lists for functional term enrichment as well as to dynamically visualize proteins onto pathway maps. Additionally, integrated expression data may be used to discover similarly expressed genes based on a starting gene of interest.

Proper citation: Algal Functional Annotation Tool (RRID:SCR_012034) Copy   

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http://gdm.fmrp.usp.br/tools_bit.php

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 29, 2012. Gene Class Expression allows functional annotation of SAGE data using the Gene Ontology database. This tool performs searches in the GO database for each SAGE tag, making associations in the selected GO category for a level selected in the hierarchy. This system provides user-friendly data navigation and visualization for mapping SAGE data onto the gene ontology structure. This tool also provides graphical visualization of the percentage of SAGE tags in each GO category, along with confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Platform: Online tool

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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/GENE-CDS

Ontology to unify several functionalities in a single resource, being: * A knowledge base for clinical pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics that can be used for question-answering (e.g., which SNPs are associated with this drug?) * A rule base for clinical decision support (e.g., inferring that a patient with a specific set of SNPs requires a lowered dose of warfarin and generating a CDS message that can be viewed by clinicians) * A tool for checking data consistency (e.g., highlighting which allele definitions in PharmGKB are overlapping, or which clinical decision support rules are matching the same group of patients)

Proper citation: Genomic Clinical Decision Support Ontology (RRID:SCR_010331) Copy   

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