NEWS
7/3/2008 - A new version of GOLEM (v2.1) is now avilable from the download page. This version fixes a bug under Mac OSX 10.5 that would prevent local ontology files from being loaded. This version also tweaks several minor UI details, and stores configuration information regarding where GO files are stored on your local machine.

Welcome to the home of GOLEM: An interactive, graphical gene-ontology visualization, navigation,and analysis tool on the web. GOLEM is a userful tool which allows the viewer to navigate and explore a local portion of the Gene Ontology (GO) hierarchy. Users can also load annotations for various organisms into the ontology in order to search for particular genes, or to limit the display to show only GO terms relavent to a particular organism, or to quickly search for GO terms enriched in a set of query genes.

GOLEM is implemented in Java, and is available both for use on the web as an applet, and for download as a JAR package. A brief tutorial on how to use GOLEM is available both online and in the instructions included in the program. We also have a list of links to libraries used to make GOLEM, as well as the various organizations that curate organism annotations to the ontology.

A golem is a living being crafted from inanimate material. By the way, golems have nothing to do with the hobbit-like creature from Lord of the Rings. His name is Gollum.