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 SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Paul Sternberg, Caltech

Christopher Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Project leads

Pascale Gaudet, SIB 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

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

CACAO & EcoliWiki

• Deborah Siegele, Texas A&M University

Jolene Ramsey

CGD

• Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University

Jodi Lew-Smith, Stanford University

dictyBase

• Rex Chisholm, Northwestern University

Robert Dodson

DisProt, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

• Silvio Tosatto

Maria Cristina Aspromonte

Maria Victoria Nugnes

Federica Quaglia

Evidence & Conclusion Ontology (ECO)

• Michelle Giglio

Suvarna Nadendla

FlyBase

• Nick Brown, University of Cambridge
• Katja Roeper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Giulia Antonazzo	Helen Attrill	Gil dos Santos	Steven Marygold
Victor Strelets	Christopher J. Tabone	Jim Thurmond	Pinglei Zhou
Rossana Zaru

Functional Gene Annotation, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London (London, UK)

• Ruth C. Lovering

GREEKC

Colin Logie

JaponicusDB, London, UK

Snezhana Oliferenko

Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)

• Cynthia Smith ORCID, The Jackson Laboratory

David P Hill

Li Ni

Dmitry Sitnikov

PHI-base

Alayne Cuzick

James Seager

Planteome

• Pankaj Jaiswal

Laurel Cooper

Justin Elser

Plant Reactome

• Pankaj Jaiswal

Parul Gupta

Sushma Naithani

PomBase

• Valerie Wood ORCID, University of Cambridge

Pascal Carme

Kim Rutherford

Rat Genome Database (RGD)

• Anne E Kwitek ORCID, Medical College of Wisconsin

Jeffrey L. De Pons	Melinda R. Dwinell	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

Elisabeth Coudert

Nevila Hyka-Nouspikel

Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), Department of Genetics, Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA)

• Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University

Suzi A. Aleksander	Stacia R. Engel	Jodi Lew-Smith	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
• Paul Thomas, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Andrea Auchincloss	Kristian Axelsen	Ghislaine Argoud-Puy	Emmanuel Boutet
Lionel Breuza	Cristina Casals-Casas	Elisabeth Coudert	Anne Estreicher
Maria Livia Famiglietti	Marc Feuermann	Arnaud Gos	Nadine Gruaz-Gumowski
Chantal Hulo	Nevila Hyka-Nouspikel	Florence Jungo	Philippe Le Mercier
Patrick Masson	Ivo Pedruzzi	Lucille Pourcel	Sylvain Poux
Catherine Rivoire	Shyamala Sundaram

UniProt, EMBL-EBI, (Hinxton, UK)

• Alex Bateman ORCID, European Bioinformatics Institute
• Sandra Orchard ORCID, European Bioinformatics Institute

Aduragbemi Adesina	Sucharitha Balu	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
Kate Warner	Conny Wing-Heng Yu

University at Buffalo, Department of Biomedical Informatics (Buffalo, NY, USA)

Alexander D. Diehl

WormBase

• Paul Sternberg, Caltech

Juancarlos Chan	Stavros Diamantakis	Raymond Lee	Paolo Nuin
Daniela Raciti	Kimberly van Auken

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

Doug Howe

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)

• Creating the gene ontology resource: design and implementation (Genome Res., 2001)

  Founders

Michael Ashburner

Judith Blake

Suzanna Lewis

J. Michael Cherry