A short study on the success of the Gene Ontology

1 {bada|rstevens|carole}@cs.man.ac.uk; Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK 2 [email protected]; Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA 3 [email protected]; Department of Genetics, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK 4 [email protected]; The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA 5 [email protected]; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5120, USA 6 [email protected]; EBI-Hinxton, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK 7 [email protected]; Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA