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The HGNC Database in 2008: a resource for the human genome.

Nucleic acids research | 2008

The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) aims to assign a unique and ideally meaningful name and symbol to every human gene. The HGNC database currently comprises over 24 000 public records containing approved human gene nomenclature and associated gene information. Following our recent relocation to the European Bioinformatics Institute our homepage can now be found at http://www.genenames.org, with direct links to the searchable HGNC database and other related database resources, such as the HCOP orthology search tool and manually curated gene family webpages.

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  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P41 HG003345
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P41 HG03345
  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
    Id: 081979/Z/07/Z

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Human Intermediate Filament Database (tool)

RRID:SCR_007744

The Human Intermediate Filament Database is a continuously updated review of the intermediate filament field. It is hoped that users will contribute to the development and expansion of the database on a regular basis. Contributions may include novel variants, new patients with previously discovered sequence and allelic variants. Suggestions on ways to improve the database are also welcome. The entire database can be searched through the Browse and Search options. A number of different parameters can be used to search the database including unique identifier, intermediate filament, disease DNA variations, amino acid variations, domain, date accepted, author and abstract. Output from the search is returned in a table containing all the pertinent cross referenced information. Multiple sequence alignment can also be performed via the CLUSTALW program to determine cDNA or protein sequence conservation. The database is linked to multiple other resources including NCBI RefSeq, PDB, OMIM, UCSC genome browser, NCBI Gene, HomoloGene, PubMed and HGNC. In the case of HGNC, reciprocal links are also available from HGNC that links to Human Intermediate Filament Database. Due to the protein centric nature of the Human Intermediate Filament Database and the gene centric nature of HGNC, a HGNC record will potentially link to multiple records in this database due to the presence of alternative splicing. In such an event, the Human Intermediate Filament Database will present to the user a list of all the protein records resulting from the HGNC gene record. The database uses Jalview and Jmol applets for the visualization of multiple sequence alignment and structure respectively. The database contains information on disease phenotypes of a variety of different intermediate filament related diseases.

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