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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2018 Jan 1;1757:69–113. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7737-6_5

Table 3. Gene page sections and content descriptions.

Section Section Contents
Gene models Gene structure, introns, exons, UTRs, alternative transcripts). Includes a gene model graphic and summary of supporting transcriptomic data.
Annotation, curation and identifiers User comments, notes from curators, community annotation projects, alternative product descriptions, gene names, synonyms and previous identifiers.
Link outs Links to other databases and resources that serve as alternative or specialized sources for additional information about our gene (ex: Entrez Gene, UniProtKB, PDB, GeneDB, Ensembl…)
Genomic Location Coordinates of the gene at the sequence level (chromosome, scaffold or contig, nucleotide). Links to the Genome Browser centered in the gene of interest.
Literature Publications containing useful information about the gene. Either automatically retrieved from GenBank records or manually curated.
Taxonomy Classification of the organism following the NCBI taxonomy.
Orthology and synteny Ortholog group assignments as predicted by OrthoMCL This section also contains a tool for aligning the gene sequence against up to 15 of the genomes included in the database.
Phenotype Collection of mutant phenotypes, manually curated from publications or inferred from high-throughput phenotyping experiments.
Genetic Variation Graphic summary of the SNPs detected in this region, with links to our genomic variation GBrowser tracks. Alignment tool for explore differences between isolates
Transcriptomics Transcript expression datasets are arranged in searchable data tables, with expandable rows. Each dataset includes expression data in tabular and graphical format, as well as coverage plots for RNA sequence data sets.
Sequences Data table containing genomic, mRNA and protein sequences for each transcript.
Sequence analysis An interactive graphic summary of BLAT hits against the GenBank non-redundant protein sequence database (NRDB).
Structure analysis 3D structure predictions and similar Protein Data Bank (PDB) chains.
Protein features and properties Protein domains predicted for this gene, displayed both in a graphical representation and in data tables
Function prediction Complete Gene Ontology annotations plus enzyme classification numbers, with links to EC numbers and GO term descriptions and publications.
Pathways and interactions Collection of manually curated and computationally predicted metabolic pathways and protein interactions.
Proteomics Data tables and graphic summaries of proteomic datasets (Mass Spec-based expression evidence and post translation modification datasets).
Immunology Predicted epitopes from The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), and host response datasets, that are organized in expandable data tables, similar to the proteomics and transcriptomics tables.