HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee: HGNC
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| Database maintenance site: | HUGO (Human Genome Organisation), Transforming Genetic Medicine Initiative |
| Country/Region: | European Union, United Kingdom |
| Database description: | 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 40,000 public records containing approved human gene nomenclature and associated gene information. The website enables 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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| Tag - Target: | Genome/Gene |
| Tag - Information type: | Ontology/Terminology/Nomenclature |
| Reference(s) - PubMed ID/DOI: | PubMed ID: DOI: PubMed ID: DOI: PubMed ID: DOI: PubMed ID: DOI: PubMed ID: DOI: |
| Language(s): | English |
| Operational status: | Active |
| Link(s) to Downloadable data: | https://www.genenames.org/download/statistics-and-files/, https://www.genenames.org/download/custom/ |
| Link(s) to Metadata of downloadable data: | - |
| Link(s) to Terms of use: | https://www.genenames.org/about/ |
| Link(s) to "How to use": | https://www.genenames.org/help/search/ |
| Contact information of database: | https://www.genenames.org/contact/ |
| Link(s) to API / SPARQL endpoint | https://www.genenames.org/help/rest/ |
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Link to FAIRsharing:
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https://fairsharing.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.29we0s |
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Record maintainer
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See the corresponding part in the FAIRsharing record. |
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Record source:
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 (2018-12-21)
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Date of creation of this record:
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2019-03-28 |
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Last update date of this record:
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2021-03-01 |
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Record license:
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Creative Commons Attribution and Share-alike (CC-BY-SA) International 4.0 license |