The case for standardizing gene nomenclature in vertebrates

Affiliations

• ¹ The Chicken Gene Nomenclature Committee (CGNC), School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
• ² HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
• ³ Rat Genome Database, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• ⁴ Mouse Genome Database, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA.
• ⁵ Xenbase, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• ⁶ ZFIN, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
• ⁷ HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. elspeth@genenames.org.
• ⁸ Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK. elspeth@genenames.org.