Table 1

Top biological and molecular GO terms (level 3) on the gilthead sea bream cDNA microarray.

GO description (biological process)

Features

Primary metabolic process

1855

Cellular metabolic process

1843

Macromolecule metabolic process

1523

Regulation of biological process

806

Cellular component organization and biogenesis

736

Transport

693

Regulation of cellular process

678

Cell communication

549

Biosynthetic process

484

Multicellular organismal development

481

Anatomical structure development

470

Regulation of metabolic process

374

Cellular developmental process

359

Response to stress

293

Catabolic process

280

Cellular localization

265

Establishment of cellular localization

263

Cell development

261

Anatomical structure morphogenesis

250

Macromolecule localization

230

Establishment of protein localization

209

Generation of precursor metabolites and energy

200

Regulation of biological quality

182

Cell cycle

178

Death

166

Cell proliferation

165

Nitrogen compound metabolic process

159

Response to external stimulus

157

Response to chemical stimulus

146

Cell cycle process

137

GO description (molecular function)

Protein binding

1452

Hydrolase activity

688

Ion binding

666

Nucleic acid binding

562

Nucleotide binding

511

Transferase activity

473

Oxidoreductase activity

342

Substrate-specific transporter activity

247

Signal transducer activity

208

Transmembrane transporter activity

195

Cofactor binding

117

Enzyme inhibitor activity

109

Ligase activity

98

Transcription factor activity

95

Structural constituent of ribosome

93

Lipid binding

84

Enzyme activator activity

74

Lyase activity

64

Isomerase activity

57

Translation factor activity, nucleic acid binding

54

Transcription activator activity

52

Transcription cofactor activity

52

GTPase regulator activity

52

Vitamin binding

51

Tetrapyrrole binding

50

Calduch-Giner et al. BMC Genomics 2010 11:193   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-193