1. David Binns, * Emily Dimmer, Rachael Huntley, Daniel Barrell, Claire O'Donovan, and Rolf Apweiler

2. ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain And the relationships between those concepts

3. representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species The aims of the Gene Ontology project are threefold To maintain and further develop its controlled vocabulary of gene and gene product attributes; To annotate genes and gene products, and assimilate and disseminate annotation data; To provide tools to facilitate access to all aspects of the data provided by the Gene Ontology project.

4. The QuickGO interface has been built using JavaScript, Ajax and HTML, and uses an optimized and streamlined set of files to facilitate large queries and data extraction