GO Database Downloads
The GO Database, which comprises both ontology and annotation data, is built from the flat files available on the GO website, and can be downloaded in mySQL or RDF XML format.
Ontology and Annotation File Downloads
See the current annotations page to download the annotation data files submitted by each database, and the ontology file downloads page for the ontology files.
| Format | Download | Updated |
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see the go_YYYYMMDD-assocdb.rdf-xml.gz file in the GO Database archives | Weekly |
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see the go_YYYYMMDD-termdb.data.gz and go_YYYYMMDD-termdb.tables.tar.gz file in the GO Database archives | Weekly |
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see the go_YYYYMM-termdb.data.gz and go_YYYYMM-termdb.tables.tar.gz file in the GO Database archives | Monthly |
More information, including API documentation, schema diagrams and full descriptions of all tables, is available on the GO database page.
Ontology and Annotation File Archives
Archives of the monthly releases of the combined ontology and annotations files (in both XML and mySQL format) are available from the GO Database archives.
