Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative
This initiative (
www.ucl.ac.uk/cardiovasculargeneontology ), headed
by Dr Ruth Lovering, represents a collaboration between University College London, King’s College
London and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), funded by the British Heart
Foundation.
The Gene Ontology (GO) vocabulary is the established standard for the functional annotation of gene products. By using GO to curate scientific literature and by integrating results from high-quality high-throughput experiments we will create an information-rich resource for the cardiovascular-research community, enabling researchers to rapidly evaluate and interpret existing data and generate hypotheses to guide future research.
Cardiovascular Annotation Committee
| Principal Investigator | Dr Ruth Lovering, Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL. |
| Co-applicants | Dr Maria Martin, Protein Function Development, EMBL-EBI. Professor Philippa Talmud, Head of Lipid Subgroup, Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL. Professor Steve Humphries, Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics,Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL. Professor Manuel Mayr, Professor of Cardiovascular Proteomics, The James Black Centre, King's College London, University of London. |
| GO annotators | Dr Nancy Campbell, Dr Rachael Huntley, Dr Ruth Lovering, Dr Barabara Kramarz, Dr Jessica Buxton |
| GOA programmer | Tony Sawford |
Over 4000 cardiovascular-associated genes have been identified as targets for annotation with GO
terms. From this extensive cardiovascular-associated list genes are being prioritised for
annotation, in close consultation with an expert advisory panel, based on criteria such as the volume
of biomedical literature available, involvement in cardiovascular processes or disease and requests
from the cardiovascular community. If you have any suggestions for additional targets, please email
goa@ebi.ac.uk or GOAnnotations@ucl.ac.uk .
The GOA group produces, in collaboration with the Cardiovascular GO Annotation Initiative, a BHF-UCL
gene association file, which contains all GO annotations for over 4,000 human proteins implicated in
cardiovascular development or disease. The BHF-UCL file is a sub-set of the UniProt gene association
file, and will provide the cardiovascular community with a discrete set of relevant GO annotations.
This file will be updated by GOA monthly and can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/GO/GOA/bhf-ucl/gene_association.goa_bhf-ucl.gz
Target List
The current list of proteins being prioritised for annotation by the Cardiovascular Gene
Ontology
Annotation Initiative is located here .
