Table 1

Comparison of GOLEM with other gene ontology navigation and analysis tools.


Availability
Finds statistically enriched GO terms
Supports gene-based queries
Visualization As Tree
Visualization As DAG
Visualization As Interactively Expandable DAG
Accepts Local Annotations Files
Requires Internet Connection

AmiGO
Freely available; HTML-based application
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Gene InfoViz
Freely available; web-based application
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
GOFish
Freely available; Java applet
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
FatiGO
Freely available; web-based application
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
GO Term Finder
Freely available; yeast-only web-based version, downloadable generic version
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
TO-GO
Freely available; Java application
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes (at program startup only)
DynGO
Freely available; standalone Java package
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
GenNav
Freely available; web-based application
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
GoMiner
Freely available; Java application
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
GOLEM
Freely available; application version, applet version
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No

Sealfon et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:443   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-443