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Ontology-Related Files

File / Format Download Updated
Monthly Reports
Reports giving a summary of ontology changes each month (plain text).
Monthly Reports directory Monthly
Terms and IDs
Tab-delimited text file containing GO term IDs, names and ontologies in the format:

GO:0000001 mitochondrion inheritance P
GO:0000002 mitochondrial genome maintenance P

  • text
Daily
Terms, IDs and obsoletes
As above, but with an extra column indicating whether a term is obsolete or not:

GO:0000001 mitochondrion inheritance P
GO:0000002 mitochondrial genome maintenance P obs

  • text
Daily
Terms, IDs and secondary IDs
Tab-delimited text file containing GO term IDs, secondary IDs, names and ontologies in the format:

GO:0000001    mitochondrion inheritance P
GO:0000002    mitochondrial genome maintenance P
GO:0000003 GO:0019952 reproduction P

  • text
Daily
Obsolete terms and alternatives
Tab-delimited text files containing obsolete GO term IDs and either suggested (obsoletes-exact) or possible (obsoletes-inexact) terms to annotate to instead.
  • obsoletes-exact
  • obsoletes-inexact
As required

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References and Evidence Codes

File / Format Download Updated
Database cross-reference list
A list of the abbreviations used by GO in database cross-references
see also the dbxref documentation (plain text)
  • plain text
  • HTML
As required
GO reference collection
references for use in annotation
  • plain text
  • HTML
As required
Evidence codes
OBO v1.0 format
Available from the OBO website as the evidence code ontology [external website]; see also the guide to GO evidence codes.
  • evidence code.obo [external website]
As required

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