Table 1.

Data for which MGD serves as the authoritative source

Data type	Community relationship
Unified genome feature catalog	MGD compares/integrates predictions from Ensembl, NCBI, Havana/Vega, produces unified catalog used by NCBI, IMPC.
Gene Ontology (GO) annotations for mouse	MGD does primary curation, integrates data from others, provides definitive mouse GO annotation sets to GO site.
Mouse Phenotype annotations	MGD does primary curation & integrates data from publications & large scale projects.
Mouse models of human diseases	MGD does primary mouse model curation using disease terms & human gene associations from OMIM and NCBI.
Gene-to-nucleotide sequence association	Co-curation with MGA (Mouse Genome Annotation) group.
Gene-to-protein sequence association	Co-curation with UniProt and Protein Ontology.
Mammalian Phenotype (MP) Ontology	MGD develops & distributes MP. MP is actively used by many groups, e.g., RGD, MRC Harwell, Sanger, IMPC, etc.
Symbols & names for genes & genome features	MGD provides access to International Nomenclature guides, implements policies, coordinates with human and rat groups.
Strain designations	MGD assigns official nomenclature; provides to repositories.