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The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Database, 2006 updates

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) aims to give every human gene a unique and ideally meaningful name and symbol. The HGNC database, previously known as Genew, contains over 22,000 public records with approved human gene nomenclature and associated information. The database has undergone major improvements throughout the last year, is publicly available for online searching at http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nomenclature/searchgenes.pl and has a new custom downloads interface at http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nomenclature/gdlw.pl.

Source: Nucleic Acids Research

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj147

Authors: T. A. Eyre, Fabrice Ducluzeau, Tam P Sneddon, Sue Povey, Elspeth A Bruford, Michael J Lush

Institution: University College London

Language: English

Topic: Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Subfield: Health Informatics

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,992