Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

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If you are interested in gene ontologies, your main port of call will be http://geneontology.org, where you will find much more information on this topic. Apart from molecular_function, gene ontology also has a biological process and a cellular component. In our recipes, we have followed the hierarchical relationship is a, but others do exist partially. For example, "mitochondrial ribosome" (GO:0005761) is a cellular component, and is part of "mitochondrial matrix" (refer to http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0005761#display-lineage-tab and click on the Graph Views).

As with the previous recipe, you can download the MySQL dump of a gene ontology database (you may prefer to interact with the data in that way). For ...