Abbreviation	Database	Name	Comment (optional)
GOC:dp	UCSD	Dexter Pratt	
GOC:fmc	AgBase	Fiona McCarthy	
GOC:jz	AgBase	Jinhui Zhang	
GOC:lp	AgBase	Lakshmi Pillai	
GOC:mr	AgBase	Michael Rice
GOC:di	AspGD/CGD	Diane Inglis
GOC:cy	AstraZeneca	Courtland Yockey	
GOC:ame	IntAct	Anna Melidoni (formerly BHF-UCL)
GOC:ebc	BHF-UCL	Evelyn Camon	formerly GOA
GOC:gr	BHF-UCL	Greg Rowe	Masters Student working with the BHF group at UCL	
GOC:hal	BHF-UCL	Hadil Alrohaif	Masters Student working with the BHF group at UCL   
GOC:jbu	BHF-UCL	Jessica Buxton	Collaborator with the BHF group at UCL	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0918-9335
GOC:kom	BHF-UCL	Klaus Mitchell	Masters Student working with the BHF group at UCL	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9510-5320
GOC:nc	BHF-UCL	Nancy Campbell
GOC:rl	BHF-UCL	Ruth Lovering	formerly HGNC	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9791-0064
GOC:vk	BHF-UCL	Varsha Khodiyar	formerly HGNC
GOC:sjp	University of Toronto	Sejal Patel	formerly BHF_UCL
GOC:nln	BIOMD	Nicolas Le Novere	
GOC:ic	CALIPHO	Isabelle Cusin
GOC:mcc	CGD	Maria Costanzo	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9043-693X	
GOC:add	CL	Alex Diehl	formerly MGI; now Univ. Buffalo
GOC:amm	CL	Anna Maria Masci	not directly affiliated with a database, but collaborates on Cell Ontology development
GOC:dsd	CL	David S. Dougall	member of Richard Scheuermann's group; not directly affiliated with a database, but collaborates on Cell Ontology development
GOC:cl	Cognia	Chris Larsen	
GOC:kp	DDB	Karen Pilcher	
GOC:pf	DDB	Petra Fey	
GOC:pg	DDB	Pascale Gaudet	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1813-6857
GOC:rjd DDB    Robert Dodson
GOC:am	EcoCyc	Amanda Mackie
GOC:atm	E. coli	Athena Mason	
GOC:das	E. coli	Debby Siegele	
GOC:jh2	E. coli	Jim Hu
GOC:bm	E. coli	Brenley McIntosh	
GOC:fb_curators	FB	Curators at FlyBase	
GOC:nv	OHSU    Nicole Vasilevsky
GOC:ha	FB	Helen Attrill
GOC:hb	FB	Heather Butler	
GOC:mc	FB	Marta Costa
GOC:ma	FB	Michael Ashburner	
GOC:dos	GO	David Osumi-Sutherland	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7073-9172
GOC:rc	FB	Russ Collins	
GOC:sart	FB	Susan Tweedie	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1818-8243
GOC:mb	GeneDB_Pfalciparum	Matt Berriman	
GOC:lmg	GeneDB_Spombe	Linda Groocock	
GOC:ai	GO	Amelia Ireland	
GOC:bf	UCL-Parkinson's UK Annotation Project	Rebecca Foulger	former affiliations: FB, UniProt, GO	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8682-8754
GOC:ceb	GO	Cath Brooksbank	
GOC:go_curators	GO	Curators at GO editorial office	
GOC:jid	GO	Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)	
GOC:jl	GO	Jane Lomax	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8865-4321	
GOC:mec	GO	Melanie Courtot	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9551-6370
GOC:pr	GO	Paola Roncaglia	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2825-0621
GOC:curators	GO	GO curators	Usually indicates GO editorial office curators plus others, e.g. from MODs
GOC:devbiol	GO Interest Group	The Developmental Biology Interest Group	
GOC:als	GOA	Aleksandra Shypitsyna
GOC:es	GOA	Elena Speretta
GOC:ecd	GOA	Emily Dimmer
GOC:pm	GOA	Prudence Mutowo
GOC:rph	BHF-UCL	Rachael Huntley	formerly GOA	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6718-3559	
GOC:vl	GOA	Vivian Lee	
GOC:yaf	GOA	Yasmin Alam-Faruque	
GOC:pj	GR, PO	Pankaj Jaiswal	
GOC:so	InterPro	Sandra Orchard
GOC:bhm	InTact		Birgit Meldal
GOC:imk	MetaCyc	Ingrid Keseler	
GOC:mengo_curators	MENGO	Curators at MENGO
GOC:dph	MGI	David Hill	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7476-6306
GOC:tfm	MGI	Terry Meehan	Cell Ontology
GOC:ajp	MGI	Tony Planchart	
GOC:dms	MGI	Dmitry Sitnikov	
GOC:cls	MGI	Cynthia Smith	
GOC:hgd	MGI	typo for Harold Drabkin?	
GOC:hjd	MGI	Harold Drabkin	
GOC:ln	MGI	Li Ni	
GOC:jab	MGI	Judith Blake	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-334X
GOC:crds EBI Microme Project	Claudia Rato da Silva
GOC:mgi_curators	MGI	Curators at MGI	
GOC:rs	MTBbase	Ralf Stephan	
GOC:tw	NCBO	Trish Whetzel
GOC:rv	OBI	Randi Vita	
GOC:cc	PAMGO	Candace Collmer	
GOC:mcc2	PAMGO	Marcus Chibucos	
GOC:ml	PAMGO	Magdalen Lindeberg	
GOC:pamgo_curators	PAMGO	Curators at Plant-Associated Microbe GO	
GOC:gvg	PATO	George Gkoutos	also spelled Georgios Gkoutos
GOC:pmn_curators	PMN	Curators at Plant Metabolic Network
GOC:al	PomBase	Antonia Lock	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1179-5999
GOC:jb	PomBase	Jurg Bahler	
GOC:mah	PomBase	Midori Harris	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4148-4606 former affiliations: GO editorial office; MGI; SGD in distant past
GOC:vw	PomBase	Val Wood	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6330-7526 former affiliation: GeneDB_Spombe
GOC:fz	PO	Felipe Zapata
GOC:lc	PO	Laurel Cooper
GOC:lmo	PO	Laura Moore
GOC:rw	PO	Ramona Walls
GOC:PO_curators	PO	Curators at PO	
GOC:cna	PRO	Cecilia Arighi	Protein Ontology curator
GOC:bj	Reactome	Bijay Jassal
GOC:mg2	Reactome	Marc Gillespie
GOC:mw	Reactome	Mark Williams
GOC:pde	Reactome	Peter D'Eustachio
GOC:phg	Reactome	Phani Garapati	
GOC:sj	Reactome	Steven Jupe
GOC:vs	Reactome	Veronica Shamovsky	
GOC:jsg	RESID	John Garavelli
GOC:sjw	RGD	Shur-Jen Wang
GOC:sl	RGD	Stan Laulederkind	
GOC:st	RGD	Simon Twigger	
GOC:vp	RGD	Victoria Petri	
GOC:cb	RSC	Colin Batchelor	
GOC:cjm	LBL	Chris Mungall	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165
GOC:as	SGD	Anand Sethuraman	
GOC:cab2	SGD	Cathy Ball	
GOC:cjk	SGD	Cindy Krieger	
GOC:clt	SGD	Chandra Theesfeld	
GOC:sgd_curators	SGD	Curators at SGD	
GOC:dgf	SGD	Dianna Fisk	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-9472
GOC:ew	SGD	Edith Wong
GOC:elh	SGD	Eurie Hong
GOC:jd	SGD	Janos Demeter
GOC:jh	SGD	Jodi Hirschman	
GOC:jp	SGD	Julie Park	
GOC:kd	SGD	Kara Dolinski	
GOC:krc	SGD	Karen Christie	
GOC:mcc	SGD	Maria Costanzo	
GOC:rb	SGD	Rama Balakrishnan	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-9933
GOC:rn	SGD	Rob Nash	
GOC:se	SGD	Stacia Engel	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5472-917X	
GOC:ssd	SGD	Selina Dwight	
GOC:dw	SPOT (EBI)     Dani Welter	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1058-2668
GOC:db	SRI International	Deepika Brito	
GOC:ask	TAIR	A. S. Karthikeyan	
GOC:ct	TAIR	Christopher Tissier	
GOC:dhl	TAIR	Donghui Li	
GOC:ds	TAIR	David Swarbreck	
GOC:hf	TAIR	Hartmut Foerster	
GOC:jy	TAIR	Jungwon Yoon	
GOC:kad	TAIR	Kate Dreher	
GOC:ki	TAIR	Katica Ilic	
GOC:lm	TAIR	Lukas Mueller	
GOC:lr	TAIR	Leonore Reiser	
GOC:mg	TAIR	Margarita Garcia?	
GOC:pz	TAIR	Peifer Zhang	
GOC:sm	TAIR	Suparna Mundodi	
GOC:syr	TAIR	Sue Rhee	
GOC:tair_curators	TAIR	Curators at TAIR	
GOC:tb	TAIR	Tanya Berardini	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3837-8864	
GOC:yl	TAIR	?	
GOC:ns	TGD	Nick Stover	
GOC:cr	TIGR	Cathy Ronning	
GOC:dh	JCVI	Dan Haft	
GOC:js	JCVI	Jeremy Selengut	
GOC:lh	JCVI	Linda Hannick	
GOC:mlg	IGS	Michelle Gwinn	
GOC:sd	JCVI	Scott Durkin	
GOC:ef	TRAIT	Erika Feltrin	
GOC:lm	TRAIT	Lorenza Mittempergher
GOC:ar	INCF	Alan Ruttenberg
GOC:hw	Tufts University	Heather Wick
GOC:PARL	UCL-Parkinson's UK Annotation Project
GOC:pad	UCL-Parkinson's UK Annotation Project	Paul Denny
GOC:mat	UCL-Parkinson's UK Annotation Project	Mathew Tata	Student working with the PARL group at UCL
GOC:aa	UniProt	Andrea Auchincloss
GOC:ae	UniProt	Anne Estreicher
GOC:ab	UniProt	Alan Bridge
GOC:ans	UniProt	Andre Stutz
GOC:ag	UniProt	Arnaud Gos
GOC:br	UniProt	Bernd Roechert
GOC:cr2	UniProt	Catherine Rivoire
GOC:ch	UniProt	Chantal Hulo
GOC:dl2	UniProt	Damien Lieberherr
GOC:dl	UniProt	Duncan Legge
GOC:ecu	UniProt	Elena Cibrian-Uhalte	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0987-9862
GOC:ec	UniProt	Elizabeth Coudert
GOC:emb	UniProt	Emmanuel Boutet (Manu) 
GOC:fj	UniProt	Florence Jungo
GOC:gc	UniProt	Gayatri Chavali
GOC:gk	UniProt	Guillaume Keller
GOC:ip	UniProt	Ivo Pedruzzi
GOC:jj	UniProt	Janet James
GOC:kd	UniProt	Kirill Degtyarenko
GOC:klp	UniProt	Klemens Pichler	
GOC:ka	UniProt	Kristian Axelsen
GOC:lb	UniProt	Lionel Breuza	
GOC:lf	UniProt	Livia Famiglietti	
GOC:mf	UniProt	Marc Feuermann
GOC:mcb	UniProt	Marie Claude Blatter
GOC:ms	UniProt	Michel Schneider
GOC:mt	UniProt	Michael Tognolli	
GOC:mm2	UniProt	Michele Magrane
GOC:ngg	UniProt	Nadine Gruaz Gumowski	
GOC:njm	UniProt	Nicky Mulder
GOC:pm2	UniProt	Patrick Masson
GOC:pdr	UniProt	Paula Duek Roggli
GOC:pga	UniProt	Penelope Garmiri
GOC:plm	UniProt	Philippe Le Mercier
GOC:reh	UniProt	Reija Hieta		
GOC:so	UniProt	Sandra Orchard	
GOC:sp	UniProt	Sylvain Poux	
GOC:ss	UniProt	Shyamala Sundaram
GOC:uh	UniProt	Ursula Hinz
GOC:wmc	UniProt	Wei Mun Chan
GOC:mls	MaizeGDB	Mary L. Schaeffer
GOC:nhn	neXtProt	Nevila Hyka-Nouspikel
GOC:jc	neXtProt	Jonas Cicenas
GOC:gap	neXtProt	Ghislaine Argoud-Puy
GOC:ppm	IntAct	Pablo Porras Millan
GOC:dsz	VIB	Dora Szakonyi	
GOC:pk	VIDA	Paul Kellam (UCL)
GOC:rh1	VIDA	Ria Holzerlandt	
GOC:cab1	WB	Carol Bastiani	
GOC:dr	WB	Daniela Raciti
GOC:ems	WB	Erich Schwarz	
GOC:kmv	WB	Kimberly Van Auken	GOC:kva is also used; occasionally MAH goes through and updates to GOC:kmv
GOC:rk	WB	Ranjana Kishore	
GOC:dgh	ZFIN	Doug Howe	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5831-7439
GOC:dsf	ZFIN	David Fashena	
GOC:cvs	ZFIN	Ceri Van Slyke	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2244-7917
GOC:ejs	ZFIN	Erik Segerdell	
GOC:lb	ZFIN	Leyla Bayraktaroglu	
GOC:mh	OHSU	Melissa Haendel	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-8737
GOC:sat	ZFIN	Sabrina Toro
GOC:sr	ZFIN	Sridhar Ramachandran	
GOC:ymb	ZFIN	Yvonne M Bradford	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-7880
GOC:obol	LBL	Terms created automatically from Obol templates. http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Obol
GOC:mag	BRENDA	Marion Gremse
GOC:tt	VBI	Trudy Torto
GOC:maf	Veterinary Medical Informatics, Virginia Tech	Maureen Fallon
GOC:hp	EBI	Helen Parkinson
GOC:sk	US Agricultural Research Service	Scott Kalberer
GOC:md	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)	Mickael Desvaux
GOC:mba	University of Colorado at Denver	Mike Bada
GOC:expert_db	Community expert	Dominique Bergmann	Stanford
GOC:expert_dr	Community expert	David Roos	U Penn
GOC:expert_ks	Community expert	Kevin Struhl	
GOC:expert_jrp	Community expert	John Pringle	
GOC:expert_jwt	Community expert	Jeremy Thorner	
GOC:expert_mf	Community expert	Migues Ferreira	
GOC:expert_mm	Community expert	Michael Melkonian	
GOC:expert_pt	Community expert	Philippa Talmud	
GOC:expert_ras	Community expert	Richard A. Singer	
GOC:expert_rg	Community expert	? (spindle assembly)
GOC:expert_rsh	Community expert	R. Scott Hawley	
GOC:expert_tf	Community expert	Tim Formosa	
GOC:expert_vm	Community expert	Vladimir Mironov	
GOC:BHF	BHF_UCL	curators	dbxref created to allow easy counting of terms added for BHF-UCL cardiovascular annotation
GOC:BHF_miRNA	BHF_UCL curators	dbxref created to allow easy counting of terms added for BHF-UCL miRNA annotation project
GOC:BHF_telomere	BHF_UCL curators	dbxref created to allow easy counting of terms added for BHF-UCL telomere annotation project (Nancy Campbell et al)
GOC:jal	Community expert	Jamie A. Lee	different format from most expert dbxrefs; GOC:expert_jal would be synonymous
GOC:isa_complete	GO content meeting	Is_a complete session, Hinxton, Oct. 2006; also used for post-meeting work on is_a complete biological process	
GOC:mtg_15nov05	GO content meeting	Immunology, TIGR, November 2005
GOC:mtg_15jun06	GO content meeting	Neurobiology, June 2006	Community experts present: Bill Bug, Maryann Martone, Kathleen Millen, Francis Szele
GOC:mtg_MIT_16mar07	GO-MIT collaboration meeting	Collaboration with Harvard-MIT group using information theory to evaluate GO; also used for post-meeting edits motivated by their analysis
GOC:mtg_cardio	GO content meeting	Cardiovascular physiology, June 2007; participant list at http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cardiovascular_physiology/development
GOC:mtg_chebi_dec09	GO-ChEBI conference call	December 2009; GO and ChEBI curators
GOC:mtg_kidney_jan10	GO content meeting	kidney development meeting, January 2010; http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Agenda_for_Kidney_Development_Ontology_Content_Meeting
GOC:mtg_mpo	GO editors' meeting	David Hill, Jane Lomax, Val Wood, Chris Mungall; Chris' report of terms with more than one part_of parent; various processes related to complexes
GOC:mtg_pamgo_17jul06	GO content meeting	PAMGO meeting, July 2006; GO and PAMGO curators
GOC:mtg_pamgo	GO content meeting	meeting of GO and PAMGO curators; superset of GOC:mtg_pamgo_17jul06
GOC:mtg_sensu	GO content meeting	Series of web (virtual) meetings to recast sensu terms; GO & MOD curators
GOC:cardio_2	working group project	Cardiac contraction; Varsha Khodiyar, with some help from Midori
GOC:txnOH	working group project	transcription overhaul summer 2010; Karen Christie & David Hill
GOC:ascb_2009	conference-based GO development	ASCB 2009; Tanya Berardini & David Hill
GOC:mtg_apoptosis	GO content meeting	June 1st 2011, EBI: with APO-SYS consortium members.
GOC:mtg_cambridge_2009	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_cambridge_2013	GOC meeting in Cambridge, April 11-13 2013
GOC:mtg_cardiac_conduct_nov11	GO content meeting, cardiac conduction. November 10th-11th 2011, UCL: http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cardiac_conduction
GOC:mtg_electron_transport	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_far_red	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_heart	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_kidney_jan10	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_lung	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_mpo	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_muscle	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_plant	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_sensu	GO content meeting
GOC:mtg_signal	GO content meeting	Jen Deegan and signaling working group. Series of web (virtual) meetings and calls to overhaul signaling
GOC:mtg_signaling_feb11	GO content meeting	February 16th-17th 2011, EBI: http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Signaling_Workshop_February_2011
GOC:mtg_transport	GO content meeting
GOC:sdb_2009	conference-based GO development	Society for Developmental Biology 2009; Tanya Berardini & David Hill
GOC:sensu	working group project	overhaul of 'sensu' terms
GOC:signaling	working group project	signaling overhaul (Becky and signaling working group)
GOC:chem_mtg	GO content meeting	GO/ChEBI alignment meeting (mainly Hinxton Feb. 2010, but can also refer to virtual meetings)	used in goche.obo file
GOC:carnegie_chem_mtg	GO content meeting	GO/ChEBI alignment meeting, Carnegie Inst. July 2010	used in goche.obo file
GOC:mtg_OBO2OWL_2013	ontology workshop partly focused on adding disjointedness axioms 
GOC:mtg_cell_cycle	GO content meeting	Feb. 28th and Mar. 1st 2013, EBI, with external experts: http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cell_Cycle_Content_Meeting_Feb_2013
GOC:cilia	working group project	cilium terms (Paola and the Syscilia consortium)
GOC:mmt	LBNL	Monica Munoz-Torres
GOC:giardia	working group project	Addition of CC terms for Giardia and other unicellular organisms (Paola and field experts)
GOC:at		Ronin Institute		Anne Thessen   0000-0002-2908-3327
GOC:BioGRID	BioGRID	BioGRID curators
GOC:nr	Nikolai Renedo	MGI summer student
GOC:vesicles	working group project	exRNA-related terms/synonyms (Paola, Jane and field experts, incl. Kei-Hoi Cheung, Louise Laurent, Andrew Su; Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium (ERCC), International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), American Society for Exosomes and Microvesicles (ASEMV), plus wider extracellular vesicle (EV) community)
GOC:autophagy	working group project	Revision of the autophagy branch (David H, Paola, Paul D, Ruth, Becky, Marc F and field experts)