QuickGO: a web-based tool for Gene Ontology searching

• Published in: Bioinformatics 2009-11, Vol.25 (22), p.3045-3046
• Main Authors: Binns, David, Dimmer, Emily, Huntley, Rachael, Barrell, Daniel, O'Donovan, Claire, Apweiler, Rolf
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Applications Note; Biological and medical sciences; Computational Biology - methods; Databases, Factual; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Internet; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Software; User-Computer Interface
• ISSN: 1367-4803; 1460-2059; 1367-4811
• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp536

QuickGO is a web-based tool that allows easy browsing of the Gene Ontology (GO) and all associated electronic and manual GO annotations provided by the GO Consortium annotation groups QuickGO has been a popular GO browser for many years, but after a recent redevelopment it is now able to offer a greater range of facilities including bulk downloads of GO annotation data which can be extensively filtered by a range of different parameters and GO slim set generation. Availability and Implementation: QuickGO has implemented in JavaScript, Ajax and HTML, with all major browsers supported. It can be queried online at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO. The software for QuickGO is freely available under the Apache 2 licence and can be downloaded from http://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/installation.html Contact: [e-mail]; [e-mail]