[go-friends] UniProtKB-GOA release [2011-06-29]

[Tony Sawford]

UniProtKB-GOA release: 29 June 2011
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UniProtKB-GOA (UniProtKB GO Annotation at EBI) is a project run by the 
European Bioinformatics Institute that provides assignments of gene 
products to the Gene Ontology (GO) resource.

The data can be obtained via:

           EBI FTP: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/GO/goa/

           EBI SRS: http://srs.ebi.ac.uk. Search GOA data library

           GO FTP: ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/gene-associations/

           GO CVS: http://www.geneontology.org/GO.CVS.help.html

For further information read: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/GOA or contact
goa at ebi.ac.uk.

Latest News
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With the imminent closure of the International Protein Index (IPI), we 
would like to alert users of the Human, Mouse, Rat, Zebrafish, Chicken 
and Cow UniProt GO annotation files (files named: 
gene_association.goa_[species], e.g., gene_association.goa_human) that 
our July GO annotation release will use the UniProt Complete Proteome 
sets to determine the protein composition of these files.  Further 
information on UniProt Complete Proteome sets is available here: 
http://www.uniprot.org/faq/15.

This change will mean that from July the gene_association.goa_human will 
increase in size, as it will include GO annotations both to reviewed 
(Swiss-Prot) and unreviewed (TrEMBL) UniProtKB accessions. Any user 
wishing to identify the reviewed UniProt protein annotation subset will 
be able continue to do so using the information supplied in the 
gp_information.goa_uniprot file 
(ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/GO/goa/UNIPROT/gp_information.goa_uniprot.gz). 
Alternatively, users can download the reviewed UniProtKB human GO 
annotation set from the UniProt QuickGO browser 
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/GAnnotation?tax=9606&db=UniProtKB%2FSwiss-Prot).

Regards,
UniProtKB-GOA Production