GO Teaching Resources

This page has been superseded. Please visit the GO wiki page on publications, tutorials, talks and posters for up to date information.

The following posters, tutorials and presentations have been prepared and used by members of the GO Consortium to educate and disseminate information about the GO project. Please note that these items were written for specific events, and have not subsequently been updated. Some of the material in the older files may not be representative of the current state of the project. Please check the dates carefully and choose the newest relevant file.

Presentations
Tutorials
Posters
Sample Annotation Sets

Presentations

GO and GO-related presentations given by GO consortium members
Title and author	Date	Download
What Is Ontology? Lung development content meeting Harvard University, US David Hill (MGI)	December 2007	ppt
Gene Ontology Overview and Perspective Lung development content meeting Harvard University, US Judith Blake (MGI)	December 2007	ppt
Using the Gene Ontology (GO) for analysis of expression data Jane Lomax (EBI) Wellcome Advanced course: Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge	June 2007	ppt
Introduction to GO and OBO Jane Lomax (EBI) AGRON-OMICS workshop VIB-UGent, Gent, BELGIUM	May 2007	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology Project Jane Lomax (EBI) Talk for EBI pre-docs	April 2007	ppt
Real-life Ontology Development Jane Lomax (EBI) Second Meeting of the Ontogenesis Network University of Manchester, UK.	March 2007	ppt
Making Gene Ontology Annotations for Fungal Genomes Karen Christie, Rama Balakrishnan, and Maria Costanzo (SGD) 24th Fungal Genetics Conference, workshop Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA	March 2007	ppt
What's New in GO? Jennifer Clark (EBI) Chicken and Cow Bioinformatics Meeting	January 2007	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology, AmiGO and GO website tutorial Jennifer Clark (EBI) Detailed introduction to all aspects of the GO project CRIBI, University of Padua	January 2007	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology Jennifer Clark (EBI) Brief overview of the GO project	January 2007	ppt
GO Annotation Rama Balakrishnan (SGD) Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference San Diego, California	January 2007	ppt
GO Tools Rama Balakrishnan (SGD) Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference San Diego, California	January 2007	ppt
AmiGO (tutorial) Rama Balakrishnan (SGD) Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference San Diego, California	January 2007	ppt
Welcome to GO: A User's Perspective Fiona McCarthy (AgBase) Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference San Diego, California	January 2007	pdf
Introduction to the Gene Ontology plus AmiGO tutorial Jennifer Clark (EBI)	January 2007	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology Jennifer Clark (EBI) 1st Eurofungbase Annotation Jamboree on Aspergillus nidulans Lyngby, Denmark	November 2006	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology Jennifer Clark (EBI) Sixth ARK-Genomics Farm Animal Functional Genomics Workshop Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.	September 2006	ppt
Introduction to Gene Ontology Annotation Emily Dimmer (EBI) Sixth ARK-Genomics Farm Animal Functional Genomics Workshop Robinson College, Cambridge, UK	September 2006	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology basic intro to GO, its purpose, structure, and evidence codes David Hill (MGI), Pascale Gaudet (dictyBase), and Stacia Engel (SGD) GO Annotation Camp 2006	July 2006	ppt
Introduction to GO Annotation basic intro to making GO annotations, with examples Eurie Hong (SGD), Tanya Berardini (TAIR), Karen Pilcher (dictyBase), and Kimberly Van Auken (WormBase) GO Annotation Camp 2006	July 2006	ppt ppt ppt ppt
Introduction to the AmiGO Browser basic introduction to using the AmiGO browser to browse the ontologies and view GO annotations Rama Balakrishnan GO Annotation Camp 2006	July 2006	ppt
Paper and Annotation Presentation: PMID:15889139 detailed presentation of a paper and reasonable annotations using the paper Chang M, Bellaoui M, Zhang C, Desai R, Morozov P, Delgado-Cruzata L, Rothstein R, Freyer GA, Boone C, Brown GW. RMI1/NCE4, a suppressor of genome instability, encodes a member of the RecQ helicase/Topo III complex. [PMID:15889139 \| doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600684] Karen Christie (SGD) GO Annotation Camp 2006	July 2006	ppt
Paper and Annotation Presentation: PMID:12972596 detailed presentation of a paper and reasonable annotations using the paper Loyola A, Huang JY, LeRoy G, Hu S, Wang YH, Donnelly RJ, Lane WS, Lee SC, Reinberg D. Functional analysis of the subunits of the chromatin assembly factor RSF. [PMID:12972596] Emily Dimmer (UniProt) GO Annotation Camp 2006	July 2006	ppt
Building Biomedical Ontologies Jennifer Clark EBI internal seminar	Mar 2006	ppt
GO Slim animation James Watson, EBI An animation demonstrating how GO slims work.	Mar 2006	zip
Using GO for expression analysis Jane Lomax MUGEN Gene Expression Profiling and Bioinformatics Course, Italy	Feb 2006	ppt
GO annotation Jane Lomax MUGEN Gene Expression Profiling and Bioinformatics Course, Italy	Feb 2006	ppt
GO For Newbies Introduction to the Gene Ontology Suparna Mundodi PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
AmiGO Introduction to the features of AmiGO Rama Balakrishnan PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
Organization Challenges for Building Biomedical Ontologies Social and organizational issues in ontology building Jennifer Clark (slides by S. Lewis and M. Ashburner) PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
Annotating Gene Products to the GO Annotation methods and protocols Harold Drabkin PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
GO Outreach Annotating and submitting your annotations Rama Balakrishnan PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
Update on the Gene Ontology project A report on progress since the last PAG meeting Jennifer Clark PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
Principles for Building Biomedical Ontologies (III) Organizational management, principles for ontology construction, case studies from the GO, debate of critical issues Jennifer Clark PAG 2006	Jan 2006	ppt
Principles for Building Biomedical Ontologies Organizational management, principles for ontology construction, case studies from the GO, debate of critical issues Suzanna Lewis, Michael Ashburner, Barry Smith, Rama Balakrishnan, David Hill, Mark Musen ISMB 2005	Oct 2005	ppt
Principles for Building Biomedical Ontologies (II) Modification of the above presentation David Hill National Center for Ontological Research inaugural event	Oct 2005	ppt
GO: the Gene Ontology Introduction to GO, its purpose, structure, annotation and applications, plus other biomedical ontologies. Pascale Gaudet Presentation to bioinformatics graduate students	Oct 2005	ppt
Introduction to the Gene Ontology basic intro to GO, its purpose, structure, and evidence codes Karen Christie, Ceri Van Slyke and Petra Fey GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
MGI GO browser presentation of MGI GO browser Harold Drabkin GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
GO Annotation basic intro to GO annotations, with examples Eurie Hong, Tanya Berardini, Karen Pilcher, Doug Howe, Michelle Gwinn, Russell Collins, Stacia Engel, and Carol Bastiani GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
Paper and Annotation Presentation: PMID:12972596 detailed presentation of a paper and reasonable annotations using the paper Loyola A, Huang JY, LeRoy G, Hu S, Wang YH, Donnelly RJ, Lane WS, Lee SC, Reinberg D. Functional analysis of the subunits of the chromatin assembly factor RSF. [PMID:12972596] Rebecca Foulger (UniProt) GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
Paper and Annotation Presentation: PMID:15889139 detailed presentation of a paper and reasonable annotations using the paper Chang M, Bellaoui M, Zhang C, Desai R, Morozov P, Delgado-Cruzata L, Rothstein R, Freyer GA, Boone C, Brown GW. RMI1/NCE4, a suppressor of genome instability, encodes a member of the RecQ helicase/Topo III complex. [PMID:15889139 \| doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600684] Karen Christie (SGD) GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
Paper and Annotation Pitfalls Presentation: PMID:15657039 presentation of a common pitfall using the paper Appelbaum L, Anzulovich A, Baler R, Gothilf Y. Homeobox-clock protein interaction in zebrafish. A shared mechanism for pineal-specific and circadian gene expression. [PMID:15657039 \| doi:10.1074/jbc.M412935200] Ceri Van Slyke (ZFIN) GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
TIGR Bacterial Genome Annotation Pipeline presentation of the bacterial genome annotation pipeline at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) Michelle Gwinn GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
GO Office presentation presentation of the activities and functions of the GO head office and how people can interact with them, for example to request changes to the Gene Ontologies Jane Lomax GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
The GO Consortium presentation about the structure of the GO Consortium and the challenges facing it as the number of groups wishing to participate expands; also deals with file formats and error checking J. Michael Cherry GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	pdf
Open Biomedical Ontologies presentation about the Open Biomedical Ontologies and the variety of other ontologies available, in addition to the Gene Ontologies Jane Lomax GO Annotation Camp 2005	June 2005	ppt
The Gene Ontology GO overview, annotation, and creating a GO slim Emily Dimmer Purdue University Bioinformatics week	May 2005	ppt
The Gene Ontology : Because You Know Sometimes Words Have Two Meanings GO overview and annotation Amelia Ireland Postgrad teaching course, Portugal	May 2005	ppt
The Gene Ontology Consortium Jennifer Clark Plant and Animal Genome XIII Conference	January 2005	pdf ppt
Using the Gene Ontology for Data Analysis Judith Blake	November 2004	pdf ppt
Gene Ontology Consortium including cross-products and OBOL Jennifer Clark EBI Internal Seminar	July 2004	pdf ppt
To Boldly GO... cross-products and OBOL Amelia Ireland EMBL Lab Day	June 2004	pdf ppt
Applications of GO focusing on microarrays Jane Lomax Microarray Course	June 2004	ppt
Editing the Gene Ontology Midori A. Harris GO External Advisory Board Meeting	May 2004	sxi pdf ppt
OBOL: Open Bio-Ontology Language Using grammars to extract and use implicit knowledge in the GO and OBO Chris Mungall GO External Advisory Board Meeting	May 2004	pdf ppt
Creating a cross product John Day-Richter	May 2004	pdf
DAG-Edit and OBO John Day-Richter	May 2004	pdf
The Sequence Ontology Suzanna Lewis	December 2003	pdf ppt
Gene Ontology Consortium Jennifer Clark Cropnet Meeting	November 2003	pdf ppt
Manual GO annotation Emily Dimmer Cropnet Meeting	November 2003	pdf ppt
The Gene Ontology: a real-life ontology, progress and future Jane Lomax I3C Conference	October 2003	ppt
Joined up ontologies: incorporating the Gene Ontology into the UMLS Jane Lomax EBI Industry Workshop	February 2003	ppt
The Gene Ontology and its insertion into UMLS Jane Lomax SOFG	September 2002	ppt
The Gene Ontology Project Jane Lomax InterPro workshop	April 2002	ppt
Heart Development - Narrative vs Combinatorial Approach cross-products David Hill GO Consortium Meeting	March 2001	ppt pdf

Tutorials

GO and GO-related tutorials given by GO consortium members
Title and author	Date	Download
GOA Annotation Tutorial for Protein APOA4 (flash) Rachael Huntley, GOA group, EBI. A tutorial by the GOA group on the annotation of APOA4 in flash.	Apr 2008	view online
Tutorial on GO Resources Judith Blake, MGI A tutorial on the GO resources available, and how to understand and use them. Includes file downloads and GO browsers.	Oct 2007	doc
Annotation and Ontology Development in GO Erika Feltrin, CRIBI SIGA [Società Italiana di Genetica Agraria] course on Bioinformatics tools for the analysis and the management of the data of sequence, genomic annotation and gene expression One day tutorial on annotation and ontology development in GO. All material is in English except the car ontology, which is in Italian.	Sept 2007	zip
OBO-Edit tutorial Jane Lomax (EBI) AGRON-OMICS workshop VIB-UGent, Gent, BELGIUM	May 2007	doc
OBO-Edit tutorial Erika Feltrin University of Padova, Italy Tutorial in Italian on using OBO-Edit	April 2007	ppt
Ontology tutorial Jennifer Clark RSC, Cambridge, UK All three files (ppt, txt and obo) are required for the tutorial.	Sept 2006	ppt txt obo
OBO-Edit Jane Lomax RSC, Cambridge, UK	Sept 2006	ppt
AmiGO Jane Lomax S. pombe Computing Workshop, Hinxton, UK	Mar 2006	ppt
Onto-Express Jane Lomax S. pombe Computing Workshop, Hinxton, UK	Mar 2006	ppt
AmiGO Jane Lomax MUGEN Gene Expression Profiling and Bioinformatics Course, Italy	Feb 2006	doc
Onto-Express Jane Lomax MUGEN Gene Expression Profiling and Bioinformatics Course, Italy	Feb 2006	doc
Get ready to GO! A biologist's guide to the Gene Ontology Jane Lomax and the GO Consortium Briefings In Bioinformatics (journal) Vol 6, no 3, 298-304.	Sept 2005	pdf
Principles for Building Biomedical Ontologies Suzanna Lewis et al. ISMB	June 2005	ppt
Creating a GO slim using OBO-Edit Emily Dimmer Purdue University Bioinformatics week	May 2005	doc
One day course on GO, version II includes ontology building, annotation exercise and AmiGO walkthrough some of the material is challenging and may take longer, depending on the aptitude of the students Amelia Ireland Bioinformatics course, Portugal	May 2005	zip
Onto-Express Tutorial Analyzing gene expression data using GO Jane Lomax Microarray course	March 2005	doc
Annotating Gene Products to the GO Harold Drabkin Plant and Animal Genomes conference	January 2005	ppt
Browsing and searching GO and its annotations Amelia Ireland Microarray course	December 2004	doc pdf zip
One day course on GO Amelia Ireland Bioinformatics course, Portugal	November 2003	zip
Gene Ontology Annotation Tutorial Evelyn Camon	October 2003	view online
GOA Flat File Tutorial Daniel Barrell	September 2003	view online
Gene Ontology tutorial J. Blake	2003	doc pdf

Posters

GO and GO-related posters presented by GO consortium members
Title and author	Date	Download
Does Your Species Show In GO? (flyer) Wormbase Annual Meeting of the Society of Nematologists (2006)	October 2006	doc
Annotating to the Gene Ontology Jennifer Clark GO Users Meeting	September 2005	pdf
Integrating the Gene Ontology into the Unified Medical Language System Jane Lomax, Alexa McCray ISMB 2004	August 2004	psd
GO On, Tell Us What You Think: Community Input into the Gene Ontology Jennifer I. Clark, Amelia Ireland, Jane Lomax, Midori A. Harris and the Gene Ontology Consortium ISMB 2004	August 2004	ppt pdf
Enjoy Gene Ontology Amelia Ireland EMBL Lab Day	June 2004	ppt jpg
The Gene Ontology Consortium Jennifer Clark EBI Open Day	October 2003	ppt pdf
Annotating with GO Jane Lomax GO Users Meeting	September 2002	ppt

Sample Annotation Sets

Sets of up to ten papers submitted by a database group, illustrating the annotations made from a paper, including GO terms, evidence codes, and reasoning (where applicable).