QuickGO: a web-based tool for Gene Ontology searching

Abstract

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

Fig. 1.

(A) Protein Annotation view. (1) Filtering options. (2) Statistics. The table contains all the information for a protein-GO term association, including: (3) names and identifiers of GO terms; (4) reference for the annotation; (5) GO evidence code for the annotation. (6) Annotation sets can be downloaded in various formats. (B) Statistics for the ‘Evidence’ column showing the percentage and count of each evidence code for this set. (C) Nucleus term (purple) compared with another GO term (yellow).