Genew: the Human Gene Nomenclature Database -- Wain et al. 30 (1): 169 Data Supplement - Supplementary Data -- Nucleic Acids Research

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We also download a file each month detailing all new, withdrawn and modified gene symbols; this is available at: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=PubMed

OMIM

http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/

GDB

http://gdbwww.gdb.org/gdb/

GenAtlas

http://bisance.citi2.fr/GENATLAS/