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Browsing through Terms and Gene Products

The GO browser shows all the ancestors and siblings of a term in an indented outline form, a "tree view". When you browse to a term with more than one parent term, you will see the ancestors on all the branches that contain that term.

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Each term is preceded by a + or a - symbol.

• The + symbol indicates that a term has children that are not currently shown.
• The - symbol indicates that a term has no children or that its children are shown.

Use the + and - symbols to view (+) or hide (-) a term's children.

As you browse around, your tree view is tracked in your browser's URL string.

Term Data

For each term, a P or I follows the + or - symbol.

• The P indicates that the term has a "part of" relationship to the parent term.
  
• The I indicates that the term has an "is a" relationship to the parent term.

Each term also has a [D] after the + or - symbol. This is a link to a definition for the term, if one is available. Listed beneath the definition are functional groupings from other protein databases that would be assigned to that GO term.

The term includes a GO ID number and name.

The line for each term ends with a number in the column row. This is the number of predicted genes in the genome that are assigned to that term. The number is a link to the Gene Products page for that term.