Note on 2020-11-18 GO term annotations - GeneMerge The November 2020 GO release contains several errors: 'alternative id' (alt_id) GO terms appear in species' gene association (gaf) files: alt_id: GO:0000797 alt_id: GO:0000799 alt_id: GO:0036326 alt_id: GO:0036327 alt_id: GO:0036328 alt_id: GO:0060733 alt_id: GO:0071148 alt_id: GO:0071149 These terms have been corrected to reflect the official GO Term id for each function as given in the 2020-11-18 GO obo file in GeneMerge gene-association files. This change will not affect GO term analysis. However, users should be aware of this potential difference in some GO gaf files vs. the corresponding GM gene association files. This fix was necessary because duplicate GO terms for the same function will result in a loss of statistical power in tests for over-representation of such terms through an artificial dilution of enrichment fraction and for all analyzed terms through unnecessary correction for multiple hypothesis tests.