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# Page contents
+ [Standard GO annotations](#standard-go-annotations)
+ [Standard GO annotations](#standard-go-annotations)
+ [Semantics of a standard GO annotation](#Semantics-of-a-standard-GO-annotation)
+ [Gene product to term relations](#Gene-product-to-term-relations)
+ [The *NOT* modifier](#The-*NOT*-modifier)
+ [GO-CAMs](#go-causal-activity-models)
+ [How to access GO annotation data](#go-annotation-files)

+ [GO-CAM data model](#GO-CAM-data-model)
+ [Browsing and visualizing GO-CAMs](#Browsing-and-visualizing-GO-CAMs)
+ [Annotation Quality Control](Annotation-Quality-Control)
+ [GO as a dynamic source of biological knowledge](#GO-as-a-dynamic-source-of-biological-knowledge)
+ [GO annotation statistics](#GO-annotation-statistics)
+ How to access GO annotation data
+ [Download GO annotation files](#go-annotation-files)
+ [GO annotation file formats](#GO-annotation-file-formats)
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# Introduction to GO annotations
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+ GO adopts an open-world model, meaning that the absence of an annotation for a specific class does not imply that the gene product lacks that function, is not localized to that cellular component, or is uninvolved in that biological process. Moreover, if a gene product is unannotated, it does not mean that its role is unknown. Genes for which no role has been demonstrated are annotated to the root term (*molecular_function, biological_process, cellular_component*) with the evidence code ND ([No Biological Data available](https://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/No_biological_Data_available_(ND)_evidence_code)).

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### Gene product to term relations relations
### Gene product to term relations
+ Gene product to term ('gp2term') relations link gene products to GO terms in standard annotations via a relation from the [Relations Ontology (RO)](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/ro){:target="blank"}..
+ Any of the relations can be associated with the modifer *NOT*. For the full list of permitted gp2term relations, see the [GO wiki](https://wiki.geneontology.org/Annotation_Relations#Standard_Annotation_Relations){:target="blank"}. The most common relations are:
#### Relations between a gene product and a Molecular Function:
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+ **Molecular Function**: substrates ("input"), products ("output"), activators, inhibitors
+ **Biological Process**: the broader process that the molecular function helps accomplish: cell cycle transition, transcription, signaling pathways, etc. Processes can be nested, i. e., a biological process can be part of another biological process. For example, a signaling pathway can be part of a developmental process, like the [Wnt signaling pathway](https://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0016055){:target="blank"} is part of [dorsal/ventral pattern formation](https://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0009953){:target="blank"}.
+ **Cellular Component**: the cellular component, cell, and/or tissue the function/process take place.
+ See the [GO-CAM example]([http://model.geneontology.org/](https://model.geneontology.org/5323da1800000002){:target="blank"} for an illustration.
+ See the [GO-CAM example](https://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/model/662af8fa00002877) for an illustration.


#### GO-CAM data model
The primary unit of biological modeling in GO-CAM is a molecular activity, e.g. protein kinase activity, of a specific gene product or complex. A molecular activity is an activity carried out at the molecular level by a gene product; this is specified by a term from the GO MF ontology. GO-CAM models are thus connections of GO MF annotations enriched by providing the appropriate context in which that function occurs. All connections in a GO-CAM model, e.g. between a gene product and activity, two activities, or an activity and additional contextual information, are made using clearly defined semantic relations from the [Relations Ontology](https://obofoundry.org/ontology/ro.html){:target="blank"}. A more complete dscription of GO-CAM can be found in [Thomas & al 2019](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31548717){:target="blank"}.
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GO aims to represent the current state of knowledge in biology, hence it is constantly revised and expanded as biological knowledge accumulates. With the ever-increasing number of published articles, experiments and methods, covering all biology with the latest annotations is always challenging. We therefore invite researchers and computational scientists to [submit requests for missing, erroneous or out-of-date annotations to improve the GO database](/docs/contributing-to-go/).

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### Statistics
### GO annotation statistics
Overall [GO statistics](https://geneontology.org/stats.html) and [detailed statistics](https://current.geneontology.org/release_stats/index.html) are available. The statistics are also [achived](https://release.geneontology.org/).

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### GO annotation files
* Download [GO annotations by species](/docs/download-go-annotations/)
* Download [GO-CAM models](https://geneontology.org/go-cam){:target="blank"}

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### GO annotation file formats
* [Gene association file (GAF) 2.2](/docs/go-annotation-file-gaf-format-2.2/)
* [Gene Product Association Data (GPAD) 2.0 files](/docs/gene-product-association-data-gpad-format-2.0/) + [Gene Product Information (GPI) 2.0 files](/docs/gene-product-information-gpi-format-2.0/): companion files

* *(Deprecated)* [Gene association file (GAF) 2.1](/docs/go-annotation-file-gaf-format-2.1/)
* *(Deprecated)* [Gene association file (GAF) 2.0](/docs/go-annotation-file-gaf-format-2.0/)
* *(Currently being deprecated)* [Gene Product Association Data (GPAD) 1.1/1.2 files](/docs/gene-product-association-data-gpad-format-1.1/) + [Gene Product Information (GPI) 1.2 files](/docs/gene-product-information-gpi-format/): companion files

### Downloads
* Download [GO annotations by species](/docs/download-go-annotations/)
* Download [GO-CAM models](https://geneontology.org/go-cam){:target="blank"}


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