Who we are
The Gene Ontology Consortium is a large, international group of scientists in the disciplines of biology and computer science.
Principal Investigators
- Paul Thomas, University of Southern California
- Paul Sternberg, Caltech
- Christopher Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- J. Michael Cherry, Stanford University
- Judith Blake, Jackson Laboratory
Project leads
- Pascale Gaudet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics - Overall Project Management
- Seth Carbon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Architecture
- David Hill, Jackson Laboratory - Ontology
- Kimberly van Auken, Caltech - Annotation
- Huaiyu Mi, University of Southern California - Phylogenetic Annotation
- Laurent-Philippe Albou, University of Southern California - Bioinformatics Outreach
- Suzi Aleksander, Stanford University - User Support
GO Council
Leaders of key contributing resources.
- AspGDB & CGD
- Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University
- Complex Portal & IntAct
- Sandra Orchard, European Bioinformatics Institute
- Dictybase
- Rex Chisholm, Northwestern University
- EcoliWiki
- James C. Hu, Texas A&M University
- EBI Ontologies team
- Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute
- FlyBase
- Nick Brown, University of Cambridge
- Functional Gene Annotation Initiative
- Ruth C. Lovering, University College London
- InterPro
- Rob D. Finn, European Bioinformatics Institute
- PomBase
- Valerie Wood, University of Cambridge
- RGD
- Mary Shimoyama, Milwaukee College of Medicine
- Reactome
- Peter D’Eustachio, New York University
- TAIR
- Eva Huala, Phoenix Bioinformatics
- UniProt
- Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute
- Alan Bridge, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- ZFIN
- Monte Westerfield, University of Oregon
Founders
Current GO contributors
| V. Acquaah | S.H. Ahmad | Giulia Antonazzo | J. Argasinska | Ghislaine Argoud-Puy |
| Cecilia Arighi | Helen Attrill | Andrea Auchincloss | Kristian Axelsen | J. Bahler |
| E. Bakker | Richard Baldarelli | James P. Balhoff | Siddhartha Basu | B. Bely |
| Tanya Berardini | Gail Binkley | Marie-Claude Blatter | Elizabeth R Bolton | C. Bonilla |
| Emmanuel Boutet | Yvonne Bradford | Lionel Breuza | R. Britto | Nancy H. Campbell |
| Cristina Casals | Juancarlos Chan | H.Y. Chang | H. Chen | J. Cho |
| Karen Christie | E. Cibrian-Uhalte | Lori Corbani | Elisabeth Coudert | Melanie Courtot |
| N. Del-Toro | J. DePons | Alex Diehl | Robert J. Dodson | Mary E. Dolan |
| Eric Douglass | Harold Drabkin | Paula Duek-Roggli | Corina Duenas | M.J. Duesbury |
| Barbara.L. Dunn | Nathan Dunn | M.R. Dwinell | Anne Eagle | Dustin Ebert |
| David B. Emmert | Anne Estreicher | Antonio Fabregat | Kathleen Falls | Livia Famiglietti |
| Marc Feuermann | S. Fexova | Petra Fey | Sibyl Gao | P. Garapati |
| Penelope Garmiri | George Georghiou | Michelle Giglio | Felix Gondwe | Benjamin Good |
| Arnaud Gos | C. Grove | Nadine Gruaz-Gumowski | Midori Harris | Nomi L. Harris |
| M.C. Harrison | E. Hartline | E. Hatton-Ellis | G.T. Hayman | Ursula Hinz |
| A. Holmes | Doug Howe | Xiaosong Huang | Chantal Hulo | Rachael Huntley |
| H. Hye-A-Bye | Alexandr Ignatchenko | T.E.M. Jones | Florence Jungo | Kalpana Karra |
| Ingrid Keseler | M. Koch | Barbara Kramarz | S.A. LaBonte | Kati Laiho |
| Stanley J.F Laulederkind | Raymond Lee | Philippe Lemercier | Damien Lieberherr | Antonia Lock |
| A. MacDougall | Kevin A. MacPherson | Michele Magrane | Patrick Masson | Lisa Matthews |
| Bruce May | Birgit H.M. Meldal | J. Mendel | Gillian H. Millburn | Alexander L. Mitchell |
| Stuart R. Miyasato | Hans-Michael Muller | Anushya Muruganujan | T. Mushayahama | S. Nadendla |
| Rob Nash | Darren A. Natale | Patrick C. Ng | Li Ni | Stephen G. Oliver |
| David Osumi-Sutherland | Ivo Pedruzzi | Livia Perfetto | Christian Pich | Klemens Pichler |
| D. Poggioli | Pablo Porras | S. Poudel | D. Raciti | N.D. Rawlings |
| J.H. Rawson | Leonore Reiser | Alix J. Rey | Lorna Richardson | Catherine Rivoire |
| M. Rodríguez-López | Paola Roncaglia | Kim Rutherford | A. Sangrador-Vegas | Tony Sawford |
| Kevin Schaper | T.K. Sheppard | Ajay Shrivatsav VP | Aleksandra Shypitsyna | Deborah A. Siegele |
| Matt Simison | Dmitry Sitnikov | Marek S. Skrzypek | E. Speretta | S. Subramaniam |
| S. Sundaram | R. Tauber | Sabrina Toro | V. Trovisco | M. Tutaj |
| N. Tyagi | S.J. Wang | K. Warner | Shuai Weng | Edith D. Wong |
| Cathy Wu | Z. Xie | L.-S. Yeh | R. Zaru | P. Zhou |
GO contributors emeriti
| Debbie Alexander | Igor Antoshechkin | Rama Balakrishnan | Carol Bastiani | Lydie Bougueleret |
| S. Bromberg | Stephanie Bunt | Heather Butler | Jessica Buxton | Evelyn Camon |
| Michael Caudy | C.F. Chen | Russell Collins | Tom Conlin | Maria Costanzo |
| David Croft | Isabelle Cusin | John Day-Richter | Bernard deBono | Aubrey de Grey |
| N. delaCruz | Janos Demeter | Paul Denny | Heiko Dietze | Kara Dolinski |
| James Done | Qing Dong | Aisling Doyle | Kate Dreher | Rachel Drysdale |
| Selina Dwight | Ruihua Fang | David Fashena | Helen Field | Dianna Fisk |
| Hartmut Foerster | C. Foote | Rebecca Foulger | M. Fraser | P. Gane |
| Phani Garapati | Margarita Garcia-Hernandez | William Gelbart | Marc Gillespie | Gopal Gopinath |
| G. Gopinatu | Melissa Haendel | G. Harris | Kerstin Hausmann | Robin Haw |
| Jill Hemish | Henning Hermjakob | B. Hickman | Jodi Hirschman | Ben Hitz |
| Eurie Hong | A. Hughes | Katica Ilic | Amelia Ireland | H.J. Jacob |
| Josh Jaffery | Bijay Jassal | P. Jayaraman | Geeta Joshi-Tope | Steve Jupe |
| Eric Just | James Kadin | Patrick Kalita | Peter Karp | AS Karthikeyan |
| Andrew Kasarskis | Guillaume Keller | Paul Kersey | Varsha Khodiyar | Ranjana Kishore |
| Maximilian Koch | Florian Korninger | G. Kowalski | Cynthia Kreiger | A.E. Kwitek |
| Mark Lambrecht | Gabriel Lander | Ed Lee | Paul Leyland | Donghui Li |
| Yuling Li | Qian Li | W. Liu | Paul Lloyd | Jane Lomax |
| P. Long | T. Lowry | J. Lu | Yves Lussier | Shahana Mahajan |
| Prita Mani | Ryan Martin | J. Mathis | Mark McDowall | Brenley K. McIntosh |
| Sheldon McKay | Pete McQuilton | Terry Meehan | Anna Melidoni | Nick Moseyko |
| Sierra Moxon | Lukas Mueller | Bob Muller | Suparna Mundodi | Monica C. Munoz-Torres |
| Nelson Ndegwa | N. Nenasheva | Elizabeth Nickerson | R. Nigam | G. Nuka |
| Claire O’Donovan | Gavin O’Kelly | Marija Orlic-Milacic | Rose Oughtred | Holly Paddock |
| Julie Park | D. Pasko | Kelley Paskov | Victoria Petri | Karen Pilcher-Kestin |
| Laura Ponting | S. Potter | Sagar Poudel | H. Ramachandran | Sridhar Ramachandran |
| D.S. Reilly | D.P. Renfro | Sue Rhee | Joel Richardson | Shannon Roberts |
| Milagros Rodriguez-Lopez | Tai Roe | Bernt Roechert | Anthony Rogers | Karen Rothfels |
| Barbara Ruef | V. Ruotti | Leyla Ruzicka | Kevin Schaper | Carl Schmidt |
| Esther Schmidt | Michel Schneider | Andy Schroeder | Ruth Seal | Eric Segerdell |
| K. Seiler | Anand Sethuraman | Veronica Shamovsky | Xiang Shao | Gavin Sherlock |
| Solomon Shorser | Konstantinos Sidiropoulos | Amy Singer | Barry Smith | J.R. Smith |
| Heeyeon Song | Judy Sprague | Brock Sprunger | Eleanor Stanley | Raymond Stefancsik |
| Andre Stutz | Laurie-Issel Tarver | Chandra Theesfeld | Christophe Tissier | Michael Tognolli |
| Susan Tweedie | Simon Twigger | Ceri VanSlyke | Imre Vastrik | Andrey Vetushko |
| W. Wang | Marissa Webber | Joel Weiser | Mark Williams | Jim Withee |
| Guanming Wu | Ioannis Xenarios | Chihiro Yamada | Jungwon Yoon | S.Y. Young |
| Christina Yung | Florent Yvon | Peifen Zhang | Brandon Zoeckler |