New GO annotation pipeline for plant proteins

Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:20

UniProtKB-GOA are pleased to announce the inclusion in their database of electronic GO annotations created by EnsemblPlants/Gramene. The annotations are created by projection of GO annotations from Arabidopsis thaliana or Oryza sativa proteins onto proteins from one or more target species based on gene orthology obtained from Ensembl Compara.

This first release contains almost 230,000 annotations to over 50,000 proteins covering 16 taxonomies including; poplar, maize, sorghum, grape and Physcomitrella. We hope this will be a valuable resource for the non-model plant species community. The annotations can be viewed and downloaded from the QuickGO browser.

Any queries regarding these annotations should be directed to goa@ebi.ac.uk.