GOfetcher

An important contribution to the Gene Ontology (GO) project is to develop tools that facilitate the creation, maintenance and use of ontologies. Several tools have been created for communicating and using the GO project. However, a limitation with most of these tools is that they suffer from lack of a comprehensive search facility. We developed a web application, GOfetcher, with a very comprehensive search facility for the GO project and a variety of output formats for the results. GOfetcher has three different levels for searching the GO: 'Quick Search', 'Advanced Search' and 'Upload Files' for searching. The application includes a unique search option which generates gene information given a nucleotide or protein accession number which can then be used in generating GO information.

对基因本体（Gene Ontology, GO）项目的一项重要贡献，在于开发能够促进本体论创建、维护与应用的工具。目前已针对GO项目推出多款用于该项目交流与应用的工具。然而，这类工具中的绝大多数均存在共同局限：缺乏全面的搜索功能。为此我们开发了一款面向GO项目的Web应用程序GOfetcher，其搭载了全面的搜索功能，并支持多种结果输出格式。GOfetcher提供三类不同层级的GO搜索方式：“快速搜索”、“高级搜索”以及“上传文件搜索”。该应用还具备一项独特的搜索功能：可根据核苷酸或蛋白质登录号生成基因信息，并依托该信息进一步生成GO相关信息。