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The Gene Ontology project is a widespread biological annotation effort undertaken by a variety of different database and curation groups around the world. The primary goals of the project are twofold:

1. to develop ontologies to describe key aspects of genes, notably where in the cell they act, what processes they are involved in and what functions they perform
2. to support the annotation of genes from a wide variety of species with these ontologies.

Much of the data that is used for GO annotations comes from curation of the published literature and these annotations are all available from the GO website. The goal of GOverview is not so much to look at the annotations themselves as there are many places to do that. My goal is to provide a way to look at the publications and the journals that these annotations are coming from and the authors that are publishing the papers that give rise to these key biological annotations. Which authors are publishing papers that give rise to the information needed to create these annotations? Which journals are these papers from, which ones are they not from? How many papers have we curated, how many have we not curated…

What does the data look like? Check out the prototype