Who we are
The Gene Ontology Consortium is a large, international group of scientists in the disciplines of 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
- David Hill, The Jackson Laboratory - GO-CAM modeling
- Kimberly van Auken, Caltech - Annotation
- Huaiyu Mi, University of Southern California - Phylogenetic Annotation
- Suzi Aleksander, Stanford University - User Support
GO Council
Leaders of key contributing resources.
- AspGDB & CGD
- Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University
- Complex Portal & IntAct
- Sandra Orchard, European Bioinformatics Institute
- Dictybase
- Rex Chisholm, Northwestern University
- EcoliWiki
- Deborah Siegele, Texas A&M University
- EBI Ontologies team
- Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute
- FlyBase
- Nick Brown, University of Cambridge
- Functional Gene Annotation Initiative
- Ruth C. Lovering, University College London
- InterPro
- Rob D. Finn, European Bioinformatics Institute
- MGI
- Cynthia Smith, The Jackson Laboratory
- PomBase
- Valerie Wood, University of Cambridge
- RGD
- Anne E Kwitek, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Reactome
- Peter D’Eustachio, New York University
- TAIR
- Eva Huala, Phoenix Bioinformatics
- UniProt
- Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute
- Alan Bridge, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- ZFIN
- Monte Westerfield, University of Oregon
Founders
Current GO contributors
| Giulia Antonazzo | Ghislaine Argoud-Puy | Cecilia Arighi | Helen Attrill | Andrea Auchincloss |
| Kristian Axelsen | Erica Bakker | Richard Baldarelli | James P. Balhoff | Siddhartha Basu |
| B. Bely | Tanya Berardini | Marie-Claude Blatter | C. Bonilla | Emmanuel Boutet |
| Yvonne Bradford | Lionel Breuza | R. Britto | Cristina Casals | Juancarlos Chan |
| H.Y. Chang | J. Cho | Karen Christie | E. Cibrian-Uhalte | Lori Corbani |
| Elisabeth Coudert | N. Del-Toro | Jeff De Pons | Alex Diehl | Robert J. Dodson |
| Mary E. Dolan | Harold Drabkin | Paula Duek-Roggli | Corina Duenas | M.J. Duesbury |
| Melinda R Dwinell | Dustin Ebert | Stacia Engel | Anne Estreicher | Antonio Fabregat |
| Kathleen Falls | Livia Famiglietti | David Fashena | Marc Feuermann | Petra Fey |
| Matt Gage | Sibyl Gao | Phani Garapati | Michelle Giglio | Benjamin Good |
| Josh L. Goodman | Arnaud Gos | Chris Grove | Nadine Gruaz-Gumowski | Midori Harris |
| Nomi L. Harris | M.C. Harrison | E. Hartline | E. Hatton-Ellis | G. Thomas Hayman |
| Ursula Hinz | A. Holmes | Doug Howe | Siyao Huang | Xiaosong Huang |
| Chantal Hulo | H. Hye-A-Bye | Alexandr Ignatchenko | T.E.M. Jones | Florence Jungo |
| Mary Kaldunski | Kalpana Karra | Ingrid Keseler | M. Koch | Kati Laiho |
| Colin Logie | Stanley J.F Laulederkind | Raymond Lee | Philippe Lemercier | Damien Lieberherr |
| Antonia Lock | A. MacDougall | Michele Magrane | Marios Makris | Steven J. Marygold |
| Patrick Masson | Lisa Matthews | Bruce May | Birgit H.M. Meldal | J. Mendel |
| Gillian H. Millburn | Alexander L. Mitchell | Stuart R. Miyasato | Lisa Moore | Sierra Moxon |
| Hans-Michael Muller | Anushya Muruganujan | Tremayne Mushayahama | S. Nadendla | Rob Nash |
| Darren A. Natale | Li Ni | Ivo Pedruzzi | Livia Perfetto | Christian Pich |
| Klemens Pichler | D. Poggioli | Pablo Porras | S. Poudel | Federica Quaglia |
| D. Raciti | Sridhar Ramachandran | Jolene Ramsey | N.D. Rawlings | Leonore Reiser |
| Catherine Rivoire | Curtis Ross | Kim Rutherford | Leyla Ruzicka | Edoardo Salladini |
| A. Sangrador-Vegas | Gil dos Santos | Kevin Schaper | Matt Simison | Amy Singer |
| Dmitry Sitnikov | E. Speretta | Victor B. Strelets | Shabari Subramaniam | S. Sundaram |
| Christopher J. Tabone | R. Tauber | Jim Thurmond | Silvio Tosatto | V. Trovisco |
| Marek Tutaj | N. Tyagi | Ceri Van Slyke | Mahima Vedi | Shur-Jen Wang |
| K. Warner | Shuai Weng | Edith D. Wong | Cathy Wu | Z. Xie |
| Qianhan Xu | L.-S. Yeh | R. Zaru | Pinglei Zhou |
GO contributors emeriti
| Vanessa Acquaah | Saadullah H. Ahmad | Laurent-Philippe Albou | Debbie Alexander | Hadil Alrohaif |
| Igor Antoshechkin | Joanna Argasinska | Praoparn Asanitthong | Rama Balakrishnan | Carol Bastiani |
| Gail Binkley | Elizabeth R. Bolton | Lydie Bougueleret | S. Bromberg | Diana Luna Buitrago |
| Stephanie Bunt | Heather Butler | Jessica Buxton | Evelyn Camon | Nancy H. Campbell |
| Michael Caudy | C.F. Chen | Hao Chen | Russell Collins | Tom Conlin |
| Maria Costanzo | Melanie Courtot | David Croft | Isabelle Cusin | John Day-Richter |
| Bernard deBono | Aubrey de Grey | N. delaCruz | Janos Demeter | Alex Deng |
| Paul Denny | Heiko Dietze | Kara Dolinski | James Done | Qing Dong |
| Eric Douglass | Aisling Doyle | Kate Dreher | Rachel Drysdale | Barbara L. Dunn |
| Nathan Dunn | Selina Dwight | Anne Eagle | David B. Emmert | Meltem Erdol |
| Ruihua Fang | Silvie Fexova | Helen Field | Dianna Fisk | Hartmut Foerster |
| C. Foote | Rebecca Foulger | M. Fraser | P. Gane | Margarita Garcia-Hernandez |
| Penelope Garmiri | William Gelbart | George Georghiou | Marc Gillespie | Felix Gondwe |
| Gopal Gopinath | G. Gopinatu | Heather Gunn | Melissa Haendel | G. Harris |
| Kerstin Hausmann | Robin Haw | Jill Hemish | Henning Hermjakob | B. Hickman |
| Jodi Hirschman | Ben Hitz | Eurie Hong | Jim Hu | A. Hughes |
| Rachael P. Huntley | Katica Ilic | Amelia Ireland | Howard J Jacob | Josh Jaffery |
| Bijay Jassal | P. Jayaraman | Geeta Joshi-Tope | Steve Jupe | Eric Just |
| Mohamed A Kadhum | James Kadin | Patrick Kalita | Peter Karp | A. S. Karthikeyan |
| Andrew Kasarskis | Guillaume Keller | Paul Kersey | Varsha Khodiyar | Ranjana Kishore |
| Maximilian Koch | Florian Korninger | G. Kowalski | Barbara Kramarz | Cynthia Kreiger |
| Sandra A. LaBonte | Mark Lambrecht | Gabriel Lander | Ed Lee | Paul Leyland |
| Donghui Li | Kan Yan Chloe Li | Qian Li | Yuling Li | W. Liu |
| Paul Lloyd | Jane Lomax | Miao Long | P. Long | Tim Lowry |
| J. Lu | Yves Lussier | Kevin A. MacPherson | Shahana Mahajan | Prita Mani |
| Ryan Martin | J. Mathis | Mark McDowall | Brenley K. McIntosh | Sheldon McKay |
| Pete McQuilton | Terry Meehan | Anna Melidoni | Aleksandra Michalak | Klaus Mitchell |
| Nick Moseyko | Lukas Mueller | Bob Muller | Suparna Mundodi | Monica C. Munoz-Torres |
| Nelson Ndegwa | N. Nenasheva | Elizabeth Nickerson | Rajni Nigam | Patrick C. Ng |
| G. Nuka | Claire O’Donovan | Gavin O’Kelly | Stephen G. Oliver | Marija Orlic-Milacic |
| David Osumi-Sutherland | Rose Oughtred | Holly Paddock | Julie Park | D. Pasko |
| Kelley Paskov | Sejal Patel | Angeline Pesala | Victoria Petri | Karen Pilcher-Kestin |
| Sandra M. Pinheiro | Laura Ponting | S. Potter | Sagar Poudel | Armalya Pritazahra |
| H. Ramachandran | Fiona Ratnaraj | Jack H. Rawson | D.S. Reilly | Daniel P. Renfro |
| Alix J. Rey | Sue Rhee | Joel Richardson | Lorna Richardson | Shannon Roberts |
| Milagros Rodríguez-López | Tai Roe | Bernt Roechert | Paola Roncaglia | Anthony Rogers |
| Karen Rothfels | Greg Rowe | Barbara Ruef | V. Ruotti | Shirin C.C. Saverimuttu |
| Tony Sawford | Kevin Schaper | Carl Schmidt | Esther Schmidt | Michel Schneider |
| Andy Schroeder | Ruth Seal | Eric Segerdell | K. Seiler | Anand Sethuraman |
| Veronica Shamovsky | Xiang Shao | Travis K. Sheppard | Mary Shimoyama | Jennifer R Smith |
| Solomon Shorser | Ajay Shrivatsav VP | Alice Shypitsyna | Konstantinos Sidiropoulos | Marek S. Skrzypek |
| Barry Smith | J.R. Smith | Heeyeon Song | Judy Sprague | Brock Sprunger |
| Eleanor Stanley | Raymond Stefancsik | Andre Stutz | Renzhi Su | Laurie-Issel Tarver |
| Chandra Theesfeld | Katherine Thurlow | Christophe Tissier | Michael Tognolli | Sabrina Toro |
| Susan Tweedie | Simon Twigger | Zara Umrao | Imre Vastrik | Andrey Vetushko |
| W. Wang | Marissa Webber | Joel Weiser | Mark Williams | Jim Withee |
| Guanming Wu | Ioannis Xenarios | Chihiro Yamada | Jungwon Yoon | S.Y. Young |
| Christina Yung | Florent Yvon | Peifen Zhang | Brandon Zoeckler |