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Welcome to the geneontology GitHub organization!

The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase is the world’s largest source of information on the functions of genes. This knowledge is both human-readable and machine-readable, and is a foundation for computational analysis of large-scale molecular biology and genetics experiments in biomedical research. For more information, please see our website, http://geneontology.org/.

Overview of some of the key repositories in this organization:

  • geneontology.github.io - GO documentation
  • go-ontology - Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology. This is primarily for the developers of the GO and contains the source code for the GO ontology. To download ontology files, please use the Downloads menu on our website.
  • go-annotation - Issues about GO annotations (manual & automated)
  • go-site - Metadata, tools, and files associated with the Gene Ontology website
  • noctua - Graph-based modeling / editing tools for biology
  • helpdesk - A place for the GO community to ask for help or report issues.

Getting help

If you have general questions about GO, check our Frequently Asked Questions.

If you have a specific question about GO, its data, usage, software, or services, please create a ticket in our discussion tracker.

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  1. helpdesk helpdesk Public

    The Gene Ontology Helpdesk

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  2. go-announcements go-announcements Public

    Announcements related to ontology changes that may impact groups using GO, such as obsoletions, merges, etc.

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  3. geneontology.github.io geneontology.github.io Public

    Repository for storing GO documentation, directly available through the general GO site

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  4. go-ontology go-ontology Public

    Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology

    Makefile 254 47

  5. go-annotation go-annotation Public

    This repository hosts the tracker for issues pertaining to GO annotations.

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  6. go-site go-site Public

    A collection of metadata, tools, and files associated with the Gene Ontology public web presence.

    JavaScript 49 89

Repositories

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  • go-ontology Public

    Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology

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    Makefile 254 CC-BY-4.0 47 644 71 Updated Oct 16, 2026
  • noctua-models Public

    This is the data repository for the models created and edited with the Noctua tool stack for GO.

    geneontology/noctua-models's past year of commit activity
    Makefile 13 CC-BY-4.0 3 79 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Oct 16, 2026
  • geneontology.github.io Public

    Repository for storing GO documentation, directly available through the general GO site

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    SCSS 8 MIT 9 12 8 Updated Oct 16, 2026
  • geneontology/noctua-standard-annotations's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 0 0 6 0 Updated Oct 16, 2026
  • go-jupyter Public

    Reproducible JupyterHub-on-EC2 giving each user a Claude Code + JupyterLab account, seeded from a starter template (GO agentic biocuration).

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    Shell 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 26 1 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • go-skills Public

    Agent skills (SKILL.md) for Gene Ontology curation: install with npx skills add geneontology/go-skills

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    Python 0 BSD-3-Clause 0 1 2 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • noctua Public

    Graph-based modeling environment for biology, including prototype editor and services

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    JavaScript 45 BSD-3-Clause 14 63 14 Updated Oct 15, 2026
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    HTML 0 0 33 0 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • gocam-py Public

    Draft data model for GO-CAMs

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    Python 3 BSD-3-Clause 2 13 3 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • annotation-query Public

    This is a repository for doing the queries like go-annotation, but with nobody following it

    geneontology/annotation-query's past year of commit activity
    Python 0 BSD-3-Clause 0 156 1 Updated Oct 15, 2026