Who we are
The Gene Ontology Consortium is an international group of scientists with expertise in biology and computer science.
Principal Investigators
 Paul Thomas, University of Southern California |
 Paul Sternberg,Caltech |
 Christopher Mungall,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
 J. Michael Cherry,Stanford University |
Project leads
 Pascale Gaudet,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Overall Project Management Ontology development Data Quality |
 Seth Carbon,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Architecture |
 Kimberly van Auken,Caltech Annotation |
 Huaiyu Mi,University of Southern California Phylogenetic Annotation |
 Suzi Aleksander,Stanford University User Support |
GO contributors by Group
GO Central
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
| Giulia Antonazzo | Helen Attrill | Gil dos Santos | Steven Marygold |
| Victor Strelets | Christopher J. Tabone | Jim Thurmond | Pinglei Zhou |
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
| 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
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 | Rossana Zaru |
University at Buffalo, Department of Biomedical Informatics (Buffalo, NY, USA)
| Alexander D. Diehl |
WormBase
- Paul Sternberg, Caltech
| Raymond Lee | Juancarlos Chan | Stavros Diamantakis | Daniela Raciti |
| Magdalena Zarowiecki |
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)
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Creating the gene ontology resource: design and implementation (Genome Res., 2001)
Founders
 Michael Ashburner |
 Judith Blake |
 Suzanna Lewis |