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 |
 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 |
 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
- 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
- Tanya Berardini, Phoenix Bioinformatics
- UniProt
- Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute
- Alan Bridge, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- ZFIN
- Monte Westerfield, University of Oregon
Founders
 Michael Ashburner |
 Judith Blake |
 Suzanna Lewis |
Current GO contributors
| Giulia Antonazzo | Ghislaine Argoud-Puy | Cecilia Arighi | Helen Attrill | Andrea Auchincloss | |
| Kristian Axelsen | Erica Bakker | Richard Baldarelli | James P. Balhoff | Sucharitha Balu | |
| Siddhartha Basu | Tanya Berardini | Marie-Claude Blatter | C. Bonilla | Emmanuel Boutet | |
| Yvonne Bradford | Lionel Breuza | Cristina Casals | Juancarlos Chan | ||
| H.Y. Chang | J. Cho | Karen Christie | E. Cibrian-Uhalte | Lori Corbani | |
| Elisabeth Coudert | Jeff De Pons | Alex Diehl | Robert J. Dodson | ||
| Corina Duenas | |||||
| 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 | ||
| Josh L. Goodman | Arnaud Gos | Chris Grove | Nadine Gruaz-Gumowski | ||
| Nomi L. Harris | M.C. Harrison | E. Hartline | G. Thomas Hayman | ||
| A. Holmes | Doug Howe | Siyao Huang | Xiaosong Huang | Chantal Hulo | |
| H. Hye-A-Bye | Alexandr Ignatchenko | T.E.M. Jones | Florence Jungo | Dushyanth Jyothi | |
| Mary Kaldunski | Patrick Kalita | Kati Laiho | Colin Logie | Ruth Lovering | |
| Stanley J.F Laulederkind | Raymond Lee | Philippe Lemercier | Damien Lieberherr | ||
| Antonia Lock | Michele Magrane | Marios Makris | Steven J. Marygold | ||
| Patrick Masson | Lisa Matthews | Bruce May | J. Mendel | Juan Jose Medina | |
| Gillian H. Millburn | Alexander L. Mitchell | Stuart R. Miyasato | Lisa Moore | Sierra Moxon | |
| Hans-Michael Muller | Anushya Muruganujan | Tremayne Mushayahama | Suvarna Nadendla | Rob Nash | |
| Darren A. Natale | Li Ni | Kalpana Panneerselvam | Ivo Pedruzzi | Christian Pich | |
| D. Poggioli | Pablo Porras | S. Poudel | |||
| Daniela 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 | Victor B. Strelets | Shabari Subramaniam | Shyamala Sundaram | ||
| Christopher J. Tabone | Rebecca 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 | Rossana 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 | |
| Benoit Bely | Ramona Britto | ||||
| 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 | Noemi Del-Toro | Janos Demeter | |
| Alex Deng | |||||
| Paul Denny | Heiko Dietze | Kara Dolinski | Mary E. Dolan | Harold Drabkin | |
| James Done | Qing Dong | Eric Douglass | Aisling Doyle | Kate Dreher | |
| Rachel Drysdale | Paula Duek-Roggli | Margaret Duesbury | 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 | Ben Good | |
| Felix Gondwe | Gopal Gopinath | G. Gopinatu | Heather Gunn | Melissa Haendel | |
| G. Harris | Midori Harris | Emma Hatton-Ellis | Kerstin Hausmann | Robin Haw | |
| Jill Hemish | |||||
| Henning Hermjakob | B. Hickman | Ursula Hinz | 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 | |
| Peter Karp | Kalpana Karra | A. S. Karthikeyan | Andrew Kasarskis | Guillaume Keller | |
| Ingrid Keseler | 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 | |
| Alistair MacDougall | |||||
| 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 | Klemens Pichler | |
| Karen Pilcher-Kestin | Sandra M. Pinheiro | Laura Ponting | S. Potter | Sagar Poudel | |
| Livia Perfetto | Armalya Pritazahra | Federica Quaglia | |||
| 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 | Elena Speretta | |
| 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 |