Searching for uses and users in Gene Ontology research

Searching for Uses and Users in Gene Ontology Research

Introduction: Despite millions of dollars in investment over the past decade in the creation and maintenance of the Gene Ontology (GO), little is known about how (or even if) its intended end users – biomedical researchers – actually employ the ontology and its related databases and interfaces in their work. This project is a preliminary investigation of what evidence exists in the literature o...

Users and Uses Research : Understanding “ The Familiar Unknown ”

Management accounting research methodologies: searching for the bests

Management needs qualitative and comprehensive information for decision making. Managers are always searching for useful information in order to reach their firm's goals and strategies. The development in technology, globalization and focusing on costumers needs has changed the information that managers need to maintain their position in a competitive environment and take advantage of profitabl...

GOfetcher: a database with complex searching facility for gene ontology

MOTIVATION 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 ve...

QuickGO: a web-based tool for Gene Ontology searching

UNLABELLED QuickGO is a web-based tool that allows easy browsing of the Gene Ontology (GO) and all associated electronic and manual GO annotations provided by the GO Consortium annotation groups QuickGO has been a popular GO browser for many years, but after a recent redevelopment it is now able to offer a greater range of facilities including bulk downloads of GO annotation data which can be e...