drug-discovery-prompts/upstream/K-Dense-AI-scientific-agent-skills/skills/database-lookup/references/quickgo.md

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QuickGO (EBI GO Annotation Browser)		import	https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/blob/9c9bd2e9/skills/database-lookup/references/quickgo.md	9c9bd2e9	2026-06-26	prompt	accepted	upstream	false

QuickGO (EBI GO Annotation Browser)

Base URL

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/services/

Auth

No auth required.

Key Endpoints

Endpoint	Description
/ontology/go/terms/{goId}	GO term details
/ontology/go/terms/{goId}/children	Child terms
/ontology/go/terms/{goId}/ancestors	Ancestor terms
/ontology/go/search?query={term}	Search GO terms by keyword
/annotation/search	Search annotations by gene/taxon/GO term

Annotation Search Parameters

• goId — GO term (e.g. GO:0003723)
• taxonId — NCBI taxonomy (e.g. 9606 for human)
• geneProductId — UniProt accession
• evidence — evidence code (e.g. ECO:0000269)
• aspect — biological_process, molecular_function, cellular_component
• limit, page — pagination

Example Calls

# GO term details
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/services/ontology/go/terms/GO:0003723

# Human annotations for RNA binding
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/services/annotation/search?goId=GO:0003723&taxonId=9606&limit=10

# Search terms by keyword
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/services/ontology/go/search?query=apoptosis&limit=5

Response Format

JSON. Annotations: paginated results with gene product, GO term, evidence, qualifier.

Rate Limits

EBI fair-use policy. Use download endpoint for large result sets.