Introduction - GO at NCBI

[Pruitt, Kim (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]]

Hi,

I'm monitoring this new list so that NCBI can be informed as GO data
becomes available for more organisms.

We don't curate GO terms ourselves, but do process GO information that
is provided on the GO FTP site. We integrate this data into Entrez Gene
and RefSeq sequence records (citing GO as the data source and linking to
the GO browser).  This adds descriptive information in the context of
other information available in Gene and RefSeq, and supports retrieval
of records based on GO terms.  

For example:

"enzyme binding"[GO]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=gene&det
ails_term=%22enzyme%20binding%22%5BGO%5D%20AND%20alive%5Bprop%5D


Regards,
Kim Pruitt

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phone: (301)435-5898
email:  pruitt at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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