Table 3.
The GO categorization of Glycine soja ESTs by biological process, molecular function, and cellular component
| Gene Ontology term | Representation | Representation percentage | |
| Biological process | Metabolism | 385 | 69% |
| Protein metabolism | 92 | 17% | |
| Biosynthesis | 79 | 14% | |
| Nucleic acid metabolism | 44 | 8% | |
| Catabolism | 24 | 4% | |
| Oxygen and reactive oxygen species metabolism | 4 | 1% | |
| Cell growth and/or maintenance | 70 | 13% | |
| Transport | 37 | 7% | |
| Stress response | 10 | 2% | |
| Photosynthesis | 63 | 11% | |
| Cell communication | 27 | 5% | |
| Response to external stimulus | 20 | 4% | |
| Signal transduction | 5 | 1% | |
| Developmental process | 2 | <1% | |
| Cell death | 2 | <1% | |
| Molecular function | Binding | 202 | 39% |
| ATP bingding | 43 | 8% | |
| Metal ion binding | 41 | 8% | |
| Nucleotide binding | 7 | 1% | |
| Catalytic activity | 197 | 38% | |
| Transferase activity | 67 | 13% | |
| Hydrolase activity | 45 | 9% | |
| Oxidoreductase activity | 38 | 7% | |
| Kinase activity | 34 | 7% | |
| Structural molecule activity | 45 | 9% | |
| Structural constituent of ribosome | 38 | 7% | |
| Transporter activity | 37 | 7% | |
| Chaperone activity | 10 | 2% | |
| Translation regulator activity | 8 | 2% | |
| Signal transducer activity | 4 | 1% | |
| Transcription regulator activity | 4 | 1% | |
| Enzyme regulator activity | 1 | <1% | |
| Motor activity | 1 | <1% | |
| Cellular component | Intracellular | 332 | 73.3% |
| Membrane | 121 | 26.7% |