WEGO: a web tool for plotting GO annotations

Jia Ye, Lin Fang, Hongkun Zheng, Yong Zhang, Jie Chen, Zengjin Zhang, Jing Wang, Shengting Li, Ruiqiang Li, Lars Bolund, Jun Wang

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Abstract

Unified, structured vocabularies and classifications freely provided by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium are widely accepted in most of the large scale gene annotation projects. Consequently, many tools have been created for use with the GO ontologies. WEGO (Web Gene Ontology Annotation Plot) is a simple but useful tool for visualizing, comparing and plotting GO annotation results. Different from other commercial software for creating chart, WEGO is designed to deal with the directed acyclic graph structure of GO to facilitate histogram creation of GO annotation results. WEGO has been used widely in many important biological research projects, such as the rice genome project and the silkworm genome project. It has become one of the daily tools for downstream gene annotation analysis, especially when performing comparative genomics tasks. WEGO, along with the two other tools, namely External to GO Query and GO Archive Query, are freely available for all users at http://wego.genomics.org.cn. There are two available mirror sites at http://wego2.genomics.org.cn and http://wego.genomics.com.cn. Any suggestions are welcome at [email protected].
Original languageEnglish
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume34
IssueWeb Server issue
Pages (from-to)W293-7
ISSN0305-1048
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Genes
  • Genomics
  • Internet
  • Software
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Vocabulary, Controlled

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