Biological Process
| Gene Ontology term | Drosophila genes | Apisassembled sequences | Drosophilagenes represented |
| All biological process terms | 2746 | 906 | 696 |
| cell growth and maintenance | 2102 | 766 | 597 |
| metabolism | 1493 | 531 | 424 |
| protein metabolism and modification | 887 | 300 | 239 |
| ion homeostasis | 7 | 9 | 6 |
| intracellular protein traffic | 158 | 88 | 67 |
| vesicle transport | 150 | 83 | 62 |
| synaptic vesicle transport | 108 | 67 | 48 |
| stress response | 120 | 22 | 16 |
| response to external stimulus | 390 | 73 | 51 |
| cell organization and biogenesis | 253 | 108 | 79 |
| cell cycle | 187 | 42 | 34 |
| apoptosis | 29 | 2 | 2 |
| cell communication | 772 | 257 | 178 |
| cell adhesion | 46 | 25 | 15 |
| cell recognition | 43 | 33 | 20 |
| neuronal cell recognition | 14 | 3 | 3 |
| synaptic target recognition | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| signal transduction | 274 | 84 | 67 |
| cell-cell signaling | 117 | 79 | 54 |
| synaptic transmission | 116 | 79 | 54 |
| neurotransmitter release | 111 | 71 | 50 |
| developmental processes | 406 | 153 | 106 |
| embryogenesis and morphogenesis | 227 | 99 | 67 |
| neurogenesis | 95 | 59 | 36 |
| imaginal discs development | 63 | 35 | 27 |
| sex determination | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| dosage compensation | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| metamorphosis | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| physiological processes | 30 | 6 | 3 |
| perception external stimulus | 196 | 31 | 23 |
| behavior | 42 | 18 | 15 |
[i] See notes for Table 3.