AmiGO: biological_process Details

Term Information

Accession

GO:0008150

Ontology

biological process

Synonyms

narrow: biological process unknown

alt_id: GO:0000004

alt_id: GO:0007582

exact: biological process

exact: physiological process

Definition

Any process specifically pertinent to the functioning of integrated living units: cells, tissues, organs, and organisms. A process is a collection of molecular events with a defined beginning and end. [source: GOC:go_curators, GOC:isa_complete]

Comment

Note that, in addition to forming the root of the biological process ontology, this term is recommended for use for the annotation of gene products whose biological process is unknown. Note that when this term is used for annotation, it indicates that no information was available about the biological process of the gene product annotated as of the date the annotation was made; the evidence code ND, no data, is used to indicate this.

Subset

Community