International Protein Nomenclature Guidelines: helping to standardise protein naming
Year: 2019
Type: other
Abstract: Consistent protein nomenclature is indispensable for communication, literature searching and retrieval of database records. However, for many proteins, a variety of different names are used across the scientific literature and public biological databases which makes effective organization and exchange of biological information a difficult task. To address this issue and provide help in protein naming, a set of protein nomenclature guidelines have been produced jointly by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB). The guidelines cover all aspects of protein naming from advice on expert sources of protein names and how to name novel proteins of unknown function to more detailed advice such as terms to avoid in a protein name and acceptable abbreviations. The guidelines are intended for use by anyone who wants to name a protein including biocurators who want to assign a protein name as part of a database record, bioinformaticians who assign protein names as part of gene annotation pipelines prior to submission to public archives and researchers who isolate a new protein and want to name it prior to publication. The guidelines are available here and here . We welcome feedback from the community which will be considered for future improvements to the guidelines.
Institution: European Bioinformatics Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2962237295