[Gofriends] May 27th 2008 GOA release

[Daniel Barrell]

GOA releases: May 27th 2008
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GOA (GO Annotation at EBI) is a project run by the European Bioinformatics
Institute that aims to provide assignments of gene products to the Gene
Ontology (GO) resource.

The data can be obtained via:

            EBI FTP: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/GO/goa/

            EBI SRS: http://srs.ebi.ac.uk. Search GOA data library

            GO FTP: ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/gene-associations/

            GO CVS: http://www.geneontology.org/GO.CVS.help.html

		(the last two will be updated overnight)

For further information read: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/GOA or contact
goa at ebi.ac.uk.


In this release 1,255 GO annotations which applied the now-illegal 
evidence code 'NR' have been removed. These annotations had been applied 
to human proteins at the beginning of the human annotation effort. 
However no reference had been provided to indicate the source of 
evidence supporting the GO term- protein association, and therefore are 
now not considered to be sufficiently reliable to include in the GOA 
dataset.

Regards

The UniProt GOA Team