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Gene Ontology

"Gene Ontology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Sets of structured vocabularies used for describing and categorizing genes, and gene products by their molecular function, involvement in biological processes, and cellular location. These vocabularies and their associations to genes and gene products (Gene Ontology annotations) are generated and curated by the Gene Ontology Consortium.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gene Ontology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gene Ontology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2016
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