GO Curator Interest Groups
The Gene Ontology covers a wide range of biological topics and to facilitate development of the ontologies, interest groups have been set up for discussion of areas within the ontologies that are likely to require extensive additions or revisions, or where proposed changes crop up frequently.
About Interest Groups
Interest groups are organized by topics that roughly correspond to GO terms, usually high-level terms that might appear in GO slim sets. Organism-specific terms are not listed because these would be redundant with model organism database affiliations, but such terms should be treated in an analogous manner to interest group topics: the relevant model organism database curators should be consulted.
Joining an existing group or creating a new group
Membership of an interest group is open to anyone, and all members are listed on the web site. To join a group or to suggest a new group, please send your request to gohelp@geneontology.org (the GO help mailing list).
Participating in discussions
Proposed changes relevant to an interest group should be handled (or at least seen) by the group members.
For complete archiving, discussions may be carried out on the GO list, and in this case the subject line of the e-mail should begin with the name of the interest group, followed by a hyphen. For example, discussion of development and gametogenesis by the plant interest group:
Subject: Plants - Development and gametogenesis
If discussions occur outside of the GO mailing list, a brief summary should be forwarded to the GO mailing list for archiving.
The very active interest groups have their own mailing lists. In these cases, the mailing list address, subscription information, and mailing list archive location are noted in the interest group entry. Help with subscribing to interest groups can be found on the mailing lists page.
Interest groups with a mailing list
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular processes and functions, as represented in the Gene Ontology.
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
See the cardiovascular GO annotation initiative for more information on the project focussed on this area of biology.
Developmental biology (process)
Anything having to do with development, especially the core of "generic" developmental processes.
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Electron Transport (process)
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Farm animals
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Immunology
Anything having to do with immunology, from any of the ontologies.
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
The GO immunology project pages have more information on GO-related immunology efforts.
Metabolism
Biosynthesis, catabolism and cell biochemistry.
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Microbial Biofuel Production
Discussion of microbial gene products involved in natural biological processes, molecular functions and cellular components that are relevant biofuel production such as biomass conversion, methanogenesis, hydrogen production and microbial photosynthesis.
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Neurobiology
Anything relevant to neurobiology or the nervous system, including neuron development.
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Protein Kinases
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Renal
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
See the GO renal annotation initiative for more information on the project focussed on this area of biology.
Response to Drug
Subscription information and archived posts to the list
Transport
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Viruses
Anything involving viruses from any of the ontologies.
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Other Interest Groups and Members
Autophagy (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=Autophagy%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- rama@genome.stanford.edu (Rama Balakrishnan) (SGD)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Cell growth and/or maintenance (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=Cell%20growth%20and%20maintenance%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- rfoulger@ebi.ac.uk (Becky Foulger) (UniProt)
Conjugation (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=conjugation%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- kara@genome.stanford.edu (Kara Dolinski) (SGD)
- mlgwinn@tigr.org (Michelle Gwinn) (TIGR)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Cytoskeleton and cell motility
Anything having to do with the cytoskeleton (component) and processes involving it, including cell motility and intracellular movement
go@geneontology.org?subject=cytoskeleton%20and%20cell%20motility%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- r-chisholm@northwestern.edu (Rex Chisholm) (DictyBase)
- dph@informatics.jax.org (David Hill) (MGI)
DNA repair (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=DNA%20repair%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- eurie@genome.stanford.edu (Eurie Hong) (SGD)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Enzymes (function)
Any enzymatic activity or associated information, such as EC cross-references, etc.
go@geneontology.org?subject=enzymes%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- mb4@sanger.ac.uk (Matthew Berriman) (Sanger)
- kirill@ebi.ac.uk (Kirill Degtyarenko) (EBI)
Fungal and microbial cell types and structures [OBO]
Interest group for the development of an ontology for microbial (fungal and bacterial) cell types and multicellular structures, akin to anatomical terms for bigger eukaryotes; also see the Microbial Structure Ontology.
go@geneontology.org?subject=fungal%20and%20microbial%20cell%20types%20and%20structures%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- kchris@genome.stanford.edu (Karen Christie) (SGD)
- maria@genome.stanford.edu (Maria Costanzo) (SGD)
- mlgwinn@tigr.org (Michelle Gwinn) (TIGR)
- eurie@genome.stanford.edu (Eurie Hong) (SGD)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
GPCRs (function)
Anything having to do with G-protein coupled receptors.
go@geneontology.org?subject=GPCRs%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- dph@informatics.jax.org (David Hill) (MGI)
- jodi@genome.stanford.edu (Jodi Hirschman) (SGD)
Hemopoeisis (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=hemopoeisis%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- camon@ebi.ac.uk (Evelyn Camon) (EBI GOA)
- adiehl@informatics.jax.org (Alexander Diehl) (MGI)
- dph@informatics.jax.org (David Hill) (MGI)
- dstates@bioinformatics.med.umich.edu (David States) (University of Michigan School of Medicine)
Meiosis (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=meiosis%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- eurie@genome.stanford.edu (Eurie Hong) (SGD)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Mitochondrion (component)
go@geneontology.org?subject=mitochondrion%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- maria@genome.stanford.edu (Maria Costanzo) (SGD)
- pj37@cornell.edu (Pankaj Jaiswal) (Gramene)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Physiology (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=physiology%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- tberardi@acoma.stanford.edu (Tanya Berardini) (TAIR)
- rtc26@gen.cam.ac.uk (Russell Collins) (FlyBase)
- dph@informatics.jax.org (David Hill) (MGI)
- vpetri@hmgc.mcw.edu (Victoria Petri) (RGD)
Plants
Any aspect of plant biology that fits into any of the ontologies.
go@geneontology.org?subject=plant%20biology%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- tberardi@acoma.stanford.edu (Tanya Berardini) (TAIR)
- jenclark@ebi.ac.uk (Jennifer Clark) (EBI GO)
- edimmer@ebi.ac.uk (Emily Dimmer) (GOA)
- lhannick@tigr.org (Linda Hannick) (TIGR)
- pj37@cornell.edu (Pankaj Jaiswal) (Gramene)
- srm4@cornell.edu (Susan McCouch) (Gramene)
- jn66@cornell.edu (Junjian Ni) (Gramene)
- rhee@acoma.stanford.edu (Sue Rhee) (TAIR)
- lstein@cshl.org (Lincoln Stein) (Gramene)
- leszek@missouri.edu (Leszek Vincent) (University of Missouri-Columbia)
- ware@cshl.org (Doreen Ware) (Gramene)
- jwegrzyn@ucsd.edu (Jill Wegrzyn) (TreeGenes)
- ivy1@cornell.edu (Noel Yap) (Gramene)
Plant-associated microbes
Covers biological functions, processes and structures that microbes use to form associations with plants. There is some overlap between this group and the viruses and fungal and microbial cell interest groups.
go@geneontology.org?subject=plant-associated%20microbes%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- david_bird@ncsu.edu (David Bird) (North Carolina State University)
- rbuell@tigr.org (Robin Buell) (TIGR)
- arc2@cornell.edu (Allan Collmer) (Cornell University)
- ccollmer@wells.edu (Candace Collmer) (Wells College)
- ralph_dean@ncsu.edu (Ralph Dean) (North Carolina State University)
- mlgwinn@tigr.org (Michelle Gwinn) (TIGR)
- lhannick@tigr.org (Linda Hannick) (TIGR)
- perna@ahabs.wisc.edu (Nicole Perna) (University of Wisconsin)
- setubal@lbi.ic.unicamp.br (Joao Setubal) (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)
- bmtyler@vt.edu (Brett Tyler) (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)
- edimmer@ebi.ac.uk (Emily Dimmer) (GOA)
- jclark@ebi.ac.uk (Jennifer Clark) (EBI GO)
Protein folding (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=protein%20folding%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- rama@genome.stanford.edu (Rama Balakrishnan) (SGD)
- lhannick@tigr.org (Linda Hannick) (TIGR)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Protein modification (process)
Co- or post-translational modifications of proteins; does not include folding.
go@geneontology.org?subject=protein%20modification%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- rama@genome.stanford.edu (Rama Balakrishnan) (SGD)
- kirill@ebi.ac.uk (Kirill Degtyarenko) (EBI)
- hjd@informatics.jax.org (Harold Drabkin) (MGI)
- john.garavelli@ebi.ac.uk (John Garavelli) (EBI - metal cluster binding)
- lhannick@tigr.org (Linda Hannick) (TIGR)
- orchard@ebi.ac.uk (Sandra Orchard) (EBI)
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
Protein synthesis (process)
Including ribosomes, translation, tRNAs, initiation, elongation, termination, suppression.
go@geneontology.org?subject=protein%20synthesis%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- hjd@informatics.jax.org (Harold Drabkin) (MGI)
RNA metabolism (process)
Including splicing, modification, editing, small RNAs, etc., but not transcription.
go@geneontology.org?subject=RNA%20metabolism%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- kchris@genome.stanford.edu (Karen Christie) (SGD)
- hjd@informatics.jax.org (Harold Drabkin) (MGI)
Signal transduction
Anything related to the process of signal transduction or relevant functions, such as signal transducer activity and its children; also see the GPCR interest group above.
go@geneontology.org?subject=signal%20transduction%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- camon@ebi.ac.uk (Evelyn Camon) (EBI GOA) - signal transducer activity
- rfoulger@ebi.ac.uk (Becky Foulger) (UniProt)
- jodi@genome.stanford.edu (Jodi Hirschman) (SGD)
- orchard@ebi.ac.uk (Sandra Orchard) (EBI)
Stress response
Response to stress and any of its children.
go@geneontology.org?subject=stress%20response%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- adiehl@informatics.jax.org (Alexander Diehl) (MGI)
- fostel@niehs.nih.gov (Jennifer Fostel) (NIH/NIEHS)
- mlgwinn@tigr.org (Michelle Gwinn) (TIGR)
- pj37@cornell.edu (Pankaj Jaiswal) (Gramene)
Transcription (process)
go@geneontology.org?subject=transcription%20-%20 (Send email to the GO mailing list on this topic)
- kchris@genome.stanford.edu (Karen Christie) (SGD)
- hjd@informatics.jax.org (Harold Drabkin) (MGI) - eukaryotic RNA Pol II
- val@sanger.ac.uk (Val Wood) (Sanger)
