Representing Kidney Development Using the Gene Ontology
Figure 4
An OBO-Edit ‘Ontology Tree Editor’ view showing the relationship and position of the new GO term ‘branching involved in ureteric bud morphogenesis’.
By placing the new term ‘branching involved in ureteric bud morphogenesis’ as a sub-type of ‘morphogenesis of a branching structure’, it puts the renal branching into the context of other types of branching morphogenesis within the Gene Ontology (using the Gene Ontology file from March 19th 2012). The [+] icon beside each term denotes that there are further child terms that can be viewed; the [−] icon denotes no further child terms; (P) denotes a part_of relationship; (I) denotes an is_a relationship.