- Introduction
- What is the Gene Ontology?
- Anatomy of a GO annotation
- Where to find GO annotations/GO tools
- Finding genes using GO terms
- How to find similarly annotated genes
- How to classify sets of genes by function, location and biological role
- Quicktime Movie Demos
Using TAIR's Gene Ontology (GO) Resources
Introduction
The purpose of this tutorial is to:
- Explain how the Gene Ontology Consortium's controlled vocabularies are structured
- Illustrate how the controlled vocabularies are used at TAIR to describe Arabidopsis genes and
- Demonstrate how to use the GO resources at TAIR to find or predict the functions of Arabidopsis genes.
After completing this tutorial you should be able to:
- Understand the structure of the GO ontologies and annotations.
- Rank GO annotations based upon evidence codes.
- Find genes using keywords.
- Find all GO annotations for a gene or set of genes.
- Group sets of genes by GO term and display the distribution in a pie chart.
To view definitions of terms used in this tutorial click on the 
next to the term. This will open a pop-up window displaying the definition for the term.
To navigate between pages in the tutorial , either click on the link to the specific page in the table of contents or use the pointers in the menu to move to the previous or next page.
This tutorial makes use of Quicktime.Click here 
to get the Quicktime Plug-in
