Who we are

The Gene Ontology Consortium is an international group of scientists with expertise in biology and computer science.

GOC meeting in Berkeley, 2019

Principal Investigators

Paul Thomas, University of Southern California
Paul Thomas,
University of Southern California
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics		 Paul Sternberg, Caltech Paul Sternberg,
Caltech		 Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Christopher Mungall,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project leads

Pascale Gaudet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Pascale Gaudet,
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Overall Project Management
Ontology development
Data Quality		 Seth Carbon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Seth Carbon,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Architecture		 Kimberly van Auken, Caltech Kimberly van Auken,
Caltech
Annotation		 Huaiyu Mi, University of Southern California Huaiyu Mi,
University of Southern California
Phylogenetic Annotation		 Suzi Aleksander, Stanford University Suzi Aleksander,
Stanford University
User Support

GO Central

Suzi A. Aleksander James Balhoff Seth Carbon Dustin Ebert
Marc Feuermann Pascale Gaudet Nomi L Harris David P Hill
Raymond Lee Huaiyu Mi Sierra Moxon Christopher J Mungall
Anushya Muruganugan Tremayne Mushayahama Paul W. Sternberg Paul D Thomas
Kimberly Van Auken      

Founders

Michael Ashburner, image By PLoS - PLoS, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4155078 Michael Ashburner Judith Blake Judith Blake Suzanna Lewis Suzanna Lewis J. Michael Cherry, Stanford University J. Michael Cherry