Welcome to the 9th Newsletter outlining the progress of the Renal GOA Initiative http://www.ebi.ac.uk/GOA/kidney/newsletter/RenalGOANewsJuly2011.pdf

This Renal GOA Initiative aims to provide a unique public resource for renal
research by generating a detailed functional dataset for mammalian gene
products implicated in kidney development and disease. The Gene Ontology
(GO) vocabulary is the established standard for the functional
annotation of gene products. By using the GO to curate scientific
literature and by integrating results from high-quality high-throughput
experiments, we will create an information-rich resource for the renal
research community, enabling scientists to rapidly evaluate and
interpret existing data and generate hypotheses to guide future research
in the quest to alleviate renal disease.