Table 4.

Comparison of total GO annotations in FlyBase releases FB2006_01 and FB2008_08 for all D. melanogaster genes (including those not yet located to the genome) by evidence type

	FB2006_01	FB2008_08	% change
Experimental evidencea	11 888	17 322	+46%
Computational evidenceb	14 946	15 487	+4%
Author/curator statementsc	16 711	16 506	−1%
Electronic annotationd	22 626	16 010	−29%
No biological data availablee	4997	5022	+0.5%
Total annotations	71 168	70 351	−1%

^aAssigned with evidence codes: IDA, IPI, IMP, IGI, IEP.

^bAssigned with evidence codes: ISS, ISA, ISM, ISO, RCA.

^cAssigned with evidence codes: TAS, NAS, IC.

^dAssigned with IEA evidence code.

^eRoot GO terms assigned with ND evidence code (note that ‘ND’ is applied only to genes that have been assessed for functional data; it is not used for genes that have not yet been subject to GO curation).