PAMGO Terms

In 2004, the PAMGO interest group comprising of collaborators from Cornell University, North Carolina State University, The Institute of Genomic Research, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Wells College felt the need to develop higher order GO Biological Process terms for annotating gene products of diverse microbes implicated in the interaction with their hosts, mostly plants ranging from mutualistic to parasitic relationships. This led to further discussions with members of the Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC) at meetings and via e-mail. Subsequently, PAMGO submitted a proposal for over thirty higher order terms describing the range of interactions between microbes and their hosts. After a series of intensive discussions, a final set of 35 were submitted to the GOC in December of 2004 and accepted into the GO Biological Process ontology in January 2005.

Featured below are some high order terms developed by PAMGO, which can be accessed from the Gene Ontology browser (AMIGO: http://www.godatabase.org). About 200 more specific terms are currently being processed prior to committing to the Gene Ontology.