Table 3

Top ten Gene Ontology categories using the standard method

GOID

Term

Ontology

Rank standard

Rank GOseq

Median read count of genes in category

GO:0005515

Protein binding

MF

1

11

206

GO:0005737

Cytoplasm

CC

2

111

238

GO:0005634

Nucleus

CC

3

4,303

228

GO:0000166

Nucleotide binding

MF

4

2,546

252

GO:0005829

Cytosol

CC

5

1,192

349

GO:0005783

Endoplasmic reticulum

CC

6

6

197

GO:0003677

DNA binding

MF

7

2,109

189

GO:0005794

Golgi apparatus

CC

8

26

213

GO:0005622

Intracellular

CC

9

3,592

187

GO:0016874

Ligase activity

MF

10

88

353

BP, biological process; CC, cellular component; MF, molecular function.

Young et al. Genome Biology 2010 11:R14   doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-r14