Representation of regulation in the Gene Ontology (biological process)

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This includes the definitions for positive and negative regulation. The equivalence axiom templates are “GO:0065007 and ‘regulates’ some X” (regulation), “GO:0065007 and ‘negatively_regulates’ some X” (negative regulation), and “GO:0065007 and ‘positively_regulates’ some X” (positive regulation), where X is a biological process.</p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="footer"> <hr style="margin:8px; padding:0px"> <div > <div class="col-sm-5" style="padding-left: 45px; text-align: left;"> <div class="footer__navigation"> <ul class="footer__list" style="padding-left: 0px;"> <li class="footer__item"> <a href="/" class="footer__link link-extended" style="color: white !important;">Home</a> </li> <li class="footer__item"> <a href="https://help.geneontology.org" class="footer__link link-extended" style="color: white !important;" target="blank">Contact us</a> </li> <li class="footer__item"> <a href="/docs/go-citation-policy/" class="footer__link link-extended" style="color: white !important;">Citation and Terms of Use</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-2" style="padding-left: 45px; padding-right: 45px; text-align: center;"> <div class="footer__logo-list"> <a href="https://globalbiodata.org/scientific-activities/global-core-biodata-resources" target="blank" alt="Global Core Biodata Resource" > <img src="/assets/GCBR-Logo-White.png" alt="Global Core Biodata Resource" style="height: 60px;"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-5" style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 35px; text-align: right;"> <p class="footer__copyright"> <small class="footer__text"> Copyright © 1999-2025 Member of the <a href="https://obofoundry.org/" class="footer__link" rel="external" title="Open Biological Ontologies" target="blank">Open Biological Ontologies Foundry</a> The GO Consortium is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (US National Institutes of Health), grant number <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/BqfmFvQGv0CWrEFOkzTp-w/project-details/10348001" class="footer__link" rel="external" title="HG012212"target="blank">HG012212</a>, with co-funding by NIGMS. </small> </p> </div> </div> </footer> <script> var baseurl = '' </script> <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script> <script src="/js/bootstrap.min.js "></script> <script src="/js/typeahead.bundle.min.js "></script> <script src="/js/main.js "></script> </body> </html>

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Representation of regulation in the Gene Ontology (biological process)