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Term Information

Accession

GO:0008150

Name

biological_process

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

biological process, physiological process, single organism process, single-organism process

Alternate IDs

GO:0007582, GO:0044699, GO:0000004

Definition

A biological process is the execution of a genetically-encoded biological module or program. It consists of all the steps required to achieve the specific biological objective of the module. A biological process is accomplished by a particular set of molecular functions carried out by specific gene products (or macromolecular complexes), often in a highly regulated manner and in a particular temporal sequence.Source:GOC:pdt

Comment

Note that, in addition to forming the root of the biological process ontology, this term is recommended for the annotation of gene products whose biological process is unknown. 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 'no data' (ND), is used to indicate this.

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. 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 'no data' (ND), is used to indicate this.

History

See termhistory for GO:0008150 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

None

Subset

goslim_metagenomics

goslim_chembl

goslim_plant

goslim_yeast

goslim_candida

goslim_pir

goslim_pombe

Related

Linkto allgenes and gene products annotated to biological_process (excluding "regulates").

Linkto all direct and indirectannotationsto biological_process (excluding "regulates").

Linkto all direct and indirectannotations download (limited to first 10,000)for biological_process (excluding "regulates").