Leila Fattel

The paper introduces GO Big, a new Gene Ontology subset for plants that improves gene function prediction by focusing on taxon-specific biological terms.

This paper demonstrates using spoken phenotypic descriptions in GWAS to identify genomic regions associated with maize plant height, corroborating known associations and finding novel candidate genes.

The paper uses GOMAP to annotate gene functions across 18 crop plant genomes, showing that these annotations can recover known phylogenetic relationships, supporting comparative functional genomics.