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Genew: the Human Gene Nomenclature Database
Hester M. Wain, Michael Lush, Fabrice Ducluzeau and Sue Povey
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
- History of Genew
- Nomenclature Resources
- Useful URLs
History of Genew
Genew was initially developed as a repository for human gene data in a Paradox database around 1987. In 1998, it contained 8,778 gene records which were imported into a Microsoft Access database (v2.0 for Windows): Genew (ver 1.0). This was upgraded in 1999 to be Y2K compatible, in Microsoft Access 97; Genew (ver 2.0) contained 10,405 records. In October 2000, Genew (ver 3.0) became fully relational with 10 tables containing 13,506 gene records.
Nomenclature Resources
We have written a number of tools to assist us in quality control, the importation of data and the analyses needed for large-scale submissions. Some of these are currently available online at: http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/code/
We publish an online bi-monthly newsletter (Nome News)
http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/nomenews.html which gives details of our current projects and database updates.We also download a file each month detailing all new, withdrawn and modified gene symbols; this is available at:
http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/public-files/nomen/monthly-updates/Useful URLs
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMedOMIM
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/GDB
http://gdbwww.gdb.org/gdb/GenAtlas
http://bisance.citi2.fr/GENATLAS/Genecards
http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/cards/LocusLink
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink/MGD
http://www.informatics.jax.org/SWISS-PROT
http://www.expasy.ch/sprot/
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