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)