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The Gene Ontology Consortium

README.md

Welcome to the geneontology GitHub organization!

The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase is the world’s largest source of information on the functions of genes. This knowledge is both human-readable and machine-readable, and is a foundation for computational analysis of large-scale molecular biology and genetics experiments in biomedical research. For more information, please see our website, http://geneontology.org/.

Overview of some of the key repositories in this organization:

  • geneontology.github.io - GO documentation
  • go-ontology - Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology. This is primarily for the developers of the GO and contains the source code for the GO ontology. To download ontology files, please use the Downloads menu on our website.
  • go-annotation - Issues about GO annotations (manual & automated)
  • go-site - Metadata, tools, and files associated with the Gene Ontology website
  • noctua - Graph-based modeling / editing tools for biology
  • helpdesk - A place for the GO community to ask for help or report issues.

Getting help

If you have general questions about GO, check our Frequently Asked Questions.

If you have a specific question about GO, its data, usage, software, or services, please create a ticket in our discussion tracker.

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  1. helpdesk helpdesk Public

    The Gene Ontology Helpdesk

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  2. go-announcements go-announcements Public

    Announcements related to ontology changes that may impact groups using GO, such as obsoletions, merges, etc.

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  3. geneontology.github.io geneontology.github.io Public

    Repository for storing GO documentation, directly available through the general GO site

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  4. go-ontology go-ontology Public

    Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology

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  5. go-annotation go-annotation Public

    This repository hosts the tracker for issues pertaining to GO annotations.

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  6. go-site go-site Public

    A collection of metadata, tools, and files associated with the Gene Ontology public web presence.

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Repositories

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  • noctua-models Public

    This is the data repository for the models created and edited with the Noctua tool stack for GO.

    geneontology/noctua-models’s past year of commit activity
    Makefile 12 CC-BY-4.0 3 34 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Feb 10, 2026
  • go-cam-browser Public

    Static site for exploring GO-CAM models

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    TypeScript 0 0 4 0 Updated Feb 10, 2026
  • go-ontology Public

    Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology

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    Makefile 240 CC-BY-4.0 47 645 67 Updated Feb 10, 2026
  • annotation-query Public

    This is a repository for doing the queries like go-annotation, but with nobody following it

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    Python 0 BSD-3-Clause 0 73 0 Updated Feb 10, 2026
  • noctua-visual-pathway-editor Public
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    HTML 0 0 32 2 Updated Feb 10, 2026
  • go-annotation Public

    This repository hosts the tracker for issues pertaining to GO annotations.

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    Python 38 BSD-3-Clause 10 429 2 Updated Feb 9, 2026
  • noctua Public

    Graph-based modeling environment for biology, including prototype editor and services

    geneontology/noctua’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 41 BSD-3-Clause 13 58 11 Updated Feb 9, 2026
  • gocam-py Public

    Draft data model for GO-CAMs

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    Jupyter Notebook 3 BSD-3-Clause 2 14 3 Updated Feb 9, 2026
  • go-cam-evidence-unwinder Public

    Find standard annotations with edges connected to multiple evidence nodes. The code will then duplicate ("unwind") the standard annotation for each evidence so that all edges have only have one evidence.

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    Python 0 0 6 0 Updated Feb 7, 2026
  • minerva Public
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    Java 7 BSD-3-Clause 9 57 9 Updated Feb 6, 2026
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