In this recipe, we will introduce the usage of gene ontology information again by querying the Ensembl REST API. Gene ontologies are controlled vocabularies to annotate genes and gene products. These are made available as trees of concepts (with more general concepts near the top of the hierarchy). There are three domains for gene ontologies: a cellular component, the molecular function, and the biological process.
Retrieving gene ontology information from Ensembl
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