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http://geneontology.org/docs/tools-overview/

Collection of tools developed by GO Consortium and by third parties. Tools are listed by category or alphabetically and continue to be improved and expanded.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology Tools (RRID:SCR_006941) Copy   

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http://www.grissom.gr/stranger/

StRAnGER (Statistical Ranking of ANotated Genomic Experimental Results) is a web application for the automated statistical analysis of annotated gene profiling experiments, exploiting controlled biological vocabularies, like the Gene Ontology or the KEGG pathways terms. Starting from annotated lists of differentially expressed genes StRAnGER repartitions and reorders the initial distribution of terms to define a new distribution of elements where each element pools terms holding the same enrichment score. The elements are then prioritized according to StRAnGER''''s algorithm and, by applying bootstrapping techniques, a corrected measure of the statistical significance of these elements is derived, enabling the selection of terms mapped to these elements, unambiguously associated with respective significant gene sets. Besides their high statistical score, another selection criterion for the terms is the number of their members, something that incurs a biological prioritization in line with a Systems Biology context. Platform: Online tool

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http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#Onto-Express

The typical result of a microarray experiment is a list of tens or hundreds of genes found to be differentially regulated in the condition under study. Independently of the methods used to select these genes, the common task faced by any researcher is to translate these lists of genes into a better understanding of the biological phenomena involved. Currently, this is done through a tedious combination of searches through the literature and a number of public databases. We developed Onto-Express (OE) as a novel tool able to automatically translate such lists of differentially regulated genes into functional profiles characterizing the impact of the condition studied. OE constructs functional profiles (using Gene Ontology terms) for the following categories: biochemical function, biological process, cellular role, cellular component, molecular function and chromosome location. Statistical significance values are calculated for each category. We demonstrated the validity and the utility of this comprehensive global analysis of gene function by analyzing two breast cancer data sets from two separate laboratories. OE was able to identify correctly all biological processes postulated by the original authors, as well as discover novel relevant mechanisms (Draghici et.al, Genomics, 81(2), 2003). Other results obtained with Onto-Express can be found in Khatri et.al., Genomics. 79(2), 2002. Custom level of abstraction of the Gene Ontology. User account required. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: Onto-Express (RRID:SCR_005670) Copy   

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http://www.genetools.us

Web-service providing access to database that brings together information from broad range of resources. Web application for functional annotation and statistical hypothesis testing. Provides tools for analysis of genomic and microarray data. Collection of tools include Bibliographic Information,Databases,Gene Annotation,Gene Regulation, Microarray,Proteins,Sequence Manipulation - Nucleic Acids,Sequence Manipulation - Protein, Systems Biology.

Proper citation: GeneTools (RRID:SCR_005663) Copy   

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http://www.psb.ugent.be/cbd/papers/BiNGO/Home.html

The Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool (BiNGO) is an open-source Java tool to determine which Gene Ontology (GO) terms are significantly overrepresented in a set of genes. BiNGO can be used either on a list of genes, pasted as text, or interactively on subgraphs of biological networks visualized in Cytoscape. BiNGO maps the predominant functional themes of the tested gene set on the GO hierarchy, and takes advantage of Cytoscape''''s versatile visualization environment to produce an intuitive and customizable visual representation of the results. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: BiNGO: A Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool (RRID:SCR_005736) Copy   

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http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

Web server for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists. Web based tool for functional profiling of gene lists from large scale experiments. Has web interface with powerful visualization. Used for analyzing data from any organism.

Proper citation: g:Profiler (RRID:SCR_006809) Copy   

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http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/cgi-bin/goblet2008/goblet.cgi

Tool that performs annotation based on GO and pathway terms for anonymous cDNA or protein sequences. It uses the species independent GO structure and vocabulary together with a series of protein databases collected from various sites, to perform a detailed GO annotation by sequence similarity searches. The sensitivity and the reference protein sets can be selected by the user. GOblet runs automatically and is available as a public service on our web server. GOblet expects query sequences to be in FASTA-Format (with header-lines). Protein and nucleotide sequences are accepted. Total size of all sequences submitted per request should not be larger than 50kb currently. For security reasons: Larger post's will be rejected. Due to limited capacities the queries may be processed in batches depending on the server load. The output of the BLAST job is filtered automatically and the relevant hits are displayed. In addition, the respective GO-terms are shown together with the complete GO-hierarchy of parent terms., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: GOblet (RRID:SCR_006998) Copy   

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http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/agriGO/

A web-based tool and database for the gene ontology analysis. Its focus is on agricultural species and is user-friendly. The agriGO is designed to provide deep support to agricultural community in the realm of ontology analysis. Compared to other available GO analysis tools, unique advantages and features of agriGO are: # The agriGO especially focuses on agricultural species. It supports 45 species and 292 datatypes currently. And agriGO is designed as an user-friendly web server. # New tools including PAGE (Parametric Analysis of Gene set Enrichment), BLAST4ID (Transfer IDs by BLAST) and SEACOMPARE (Cross comparison of SEA) were developed. The arrival of these tools provides users with possibilities for data mining and systematic result exploration and will allow better data analysis and interpretation. # The exploratory capability and result visualization are enhanced. Results are provided in different formats: HTML tables, tabulated text files, hierarchical tree graphs, and flash bar graphs. # In agriGO, PAGE and SEACOMPARE can be used to carry out cross-comparisons of results derived from different data sets, which is very important when studying multiple groups of experiments, such as in time-course research. Platform: Online tool, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jernst/stem/

The Short Time-series Expression Miner (STEM) is a Java program for clustering, comparing, and visualizing short time series gene expression data from microarray experiments (~8 time points or fewer). STEM allows researchers to identify significant temporal expression profiles and the genes associated with these profiles and to compare the behavior of these genes across multiple conditions. STEM is fully integrated with the Gene Ontology (GO) database supporting GO category gene enrichment analyses for sets of genes having the same temporal expression pattern. STEM also supports the ability to easily determine and visualize the behavior of genes belonging to a given GO category or user defined gene set, identifying which temporal expression profiles were enriched for these genes. (Note: While STEM is designed primarily to analyze data from short time course experiments it can be used to analyze data from any small set of experiments which can naturally be ordered sequentially including dose response experiments.) Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: Short Time-series Expression Miner (STEM) (RRID:SCR_005016) Copy   

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http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/hartl/old_site/lab/publications/GeneMerge.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. Web-based and standalone application that returns a wide range of functional genomic data for a given set of study genes and provides rank scores for over-representation of particular functions or categories in the data. It uses the hypergeometric test statistic which returns statistically correct results for samples of all sizes and is the #2 fastest GO tool available (Khatri and Draghici, 2005). GeneMerge can be used with any discrete, locus-based annotation data, including, literature references, genetic interactions, mutant phenotypes as well as traditional Gene Ontology queries. GeneMerge is particularly useful for the analysis of microarray data and other large biological datasets. The big advantage of GeneMerge over other similar programs is that you are not limited to analyzing your data from the perspective of a pre-packaged set of gene-association data. You can download or create gene-association files to analyze your data from an unlimited number of perspectives. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: GeneMerge (RRID:SCR_005744) Copy   

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http://app.aporc.org/NOA/

Network Ontology Analysis (NOA) (abbreviated to NOA) is a freely available collection of Gene Ontology tools aiming to analyze functions of gene network instead of gene list. Network rewiring facilitates the function changes between conditions even with the same gene list. Therefore, it is necessary to annotate the specific function of networks by considering the fundamental roles of interactions from the viewpoint of systems biology. NOA is such a novel functional enrichment analysis method capable to handle both dynamic and static networks. The application of NOA in biological networks shows that NOA can not only capture changing functions in rewiring networks but also find more relevant and specific functions in traditional static networks. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: Network Ontology Analysis (RRID:SCR_005667) Copy   

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http://biit.cs.ut.ee/graphweb/

GraphWeb allows the detection of modules from biological, heterogeneous and multi-species networks, and the interpretation of detected modules using Gene Ontology, cis-regulatory motifs and biological pathways. GraphWeb is a public web server for graph-based analysis of biological networks that: * analyses directed and undirected, weighted and unweighted heterogeneous networks of genes, proteins and microarray probesets for many eukaryotic genomes; * integrates multiple diverse datasets into global networks; * incorporates multispecies data using gene orthology mapping; * filters nodes and edges based on dataset support, edge weight and node annotation; * detects gene modules from networks using a collection of algorithms; * interprets discovered modules using Gene Ontology, pathways, and cis-regulatory motifs. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GraphWeb (RRID:SCR_005746) Copy   

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http://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/webtools/proteinon/

ProteInOn calculates semantic similarity between GO terms or proteins annotated with GO terms. It also calculates term enrichment of protein sets, by applying a term representativity score, and gives additional information on protein interactions. The query compute protein semantic similarity returns the semantic similarity scores between all proteins entered, in matrix format. The option Measure allows users to choose one of several semantic similarity measures: Resnik, Lin, or Jiang & Conrath's measures with or without the DCA approach, plus the graph-based simUI and simGIC measures. These measures are listed by order of performance as evaluated with protein sequence similarity. The option GO type allows users to choose one of the aspects of GO: molecular function, biological process and cellular component. The option Ignore IEA limits the query to non-electronic annotations, excluding evidence types: IEA, NAS, ND, NR.

Proper citation: ProteInOn (RRID:SCR_005740) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/ermineJ/

Data analysis software for gene sets in expression microarray data or other genome-wide data that results in rankings of genes. A typical goal is to determine whether particular biological pathways are doing something interesting in the data. The software is designed to be used by biologists with little or no informatics background. A command-line interface is available for users who wish to script the use of ermineJ. Major features include: * Implementation of multiple methods for gene set analysis: ** Over-representation analysis ** A resampling-based method that uses gene scores ** A rank-based method that uses gene scores ** A resampling-based method that uses correlation between gene expression profiles (a type of cluster-enrichment analysis). * Gene sets receive statistical scores (p-values), and multiple test correction is supported. * Support of the Gene Ontology terminology; users can choose which aspects to analyze. * User files use simple text formats. * Users can modify gene sets or create new ones. * The results can be visualized within the software. * It is simple to compare multiple analyses of the same data set with different settings. * User-definable hyperlinks are provided to external sites to allow more efficient browsing of the results. * For programmers, there is a command line interface as well as a simple application programming interface that can be used to plug ermineJ functionality into your own code Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: ErmineJ (RRID:SCR_006450) Copy   

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http://www.psb.ugent.be/esb/PiNGO/

A Java-based tool to easily find unknown genes in a network that are significantly associated with user-defined target Gene Ontology (GO) categories. PiNGO is implemented as a plugin for Cytoscape, a popular open source software platform for visualizing and integrating molecular interaction networks. PiNGO predicts the categorization of a gene based on the annotations of its neighbors, using the enrichment statistics of its sister tool BiNGO. Networks can either be selected from the Cytoscape interface or uploaded from file. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: PiNGO (RRID:SCR_000692) Copy   

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http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/BioinformaticsTools/Arraytrack/default.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 23,2023. Software tool developed for ArrayTrack that takes a list of genes and identifies terms in Gene Ontology associated with those genes. GOFFA provides tools to view/access the following: GO term hierarchy, full listing of GO terms annotated with the genes associated with a given term, Fisher's exact test p-value providing the probability of identifying that many genes for a given term by chance alone, and relative enrichment factor (E-value) giving the enrichment of a GO term for genes in the submitted list relative to the frequency of genes assigned to that term from the full set of GOFFA annotated genes for a particular species.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology For Functional Analysis (GOFFA) (RRID:SCR_006484) Copy   

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http://genemania.org/

Data analysis service to predict the function of your favorite genes and gene sets. Indexing 1,421 association networks containing 266,984,699 interactions mapped to 155,238 genes from 7 organisms. GeneMANIA interaction networks are available for download in plain text format. GeneMANIA finds other genes that are related to a set of input genes, using a very large set of functional association data. Association data include protein and genetic interactions, pathways, co-expression, co-localization and protein domain similarity. You can use GeneMANIA to find new members of a pathway or complex, find additional genes you may have missed in your screen or find new genes with a specific function, such as protein kinases. Your question is defined by the set of genes you input. If members of your gene list make up a protein complex, GeneMANIA will return more potential members of the protein complex. If you enter a gene list, GeneMANIA will return connections between your genes, within the selected datasets. GeneMANIA suggests annotations for genes based on Gene Ontology term enrichment of highly interacting genes with the gene of interest. GeneMANIA is also a gene recommendation system. GeneMANIA is also accessible via a Cytoscape plugin, designed for power users. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: GeneMANIA (RRID:SCR_005709) Copy   

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http://great.stanford.edu/public/html/splash.php

Data analysis service that predicts functions of cis-regulatory regions identified by localized measurements of DNA binding events across an entire genome. Whereas previous methods took into account only binding proximal to genes, GREAT is able to properly incorporate distal binding sites and control for false positives using a binomial test over the input genomic regions. GREAT incorporates annotations from 20 ontologies and is available as a web application. The utility of GREAT extends to data generated for transcription-associated factors, open chromatin, localized epigenomic markers and similar functional data sets, and comparative genomics sets. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GREAT: Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool (RRID:SCR_005807) Copy   

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http://discover.nci.nih.gov/gominer/GoCommandWebInterface.jsp

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. A web program that organizes lists of genes of interest (for example, under- and overexpressed genes from a microarray experiment) for biological interpretation in the context of the Gene Ontology and automates the analysis of multiple microarrays then integrates the results across all of them in exportable output files and visualizations. High-Throughput GoMiner is an enhancement of GoMiner and is implemented with both a command line interface and a web interface. The program can also: efficiently perform automated batch processing of an arbitrary number of microarrays; produce a human- or computer-readable report that rank-orders the multiple microarray results according to the number of significant GO categories; integrate the multiple microarray results by providing organized, global clustered image map visualizations of the relationships of significant GO categories; provide a fast form of false discovery rate multiple comparisons calculation; and provide annotations and visualizations for relating transcription factor binding sites to genes and GO categories.

Proper citation: High-Throughput GoMiner (RRID:SCR_000173) Copy   

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http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/biotools/rebil/ssm/

FuSSiMeG is being discontinued, may not be working properly. Please use our new tool ProteinOn. Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene Products (FuSSiMeG) provides a functional similarity measure between two proteins using the semantic similarity between the GO terms annotated with the proteins. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: FuSSiMeG: Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene-Products (RRID:SCR_005738) Copy   

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