title: Guidelines and recommendations for content, structure, and deployment of mutation databases: II. Journey in progress.
abstract: The HUGO Mutation Database Initiative has produced guidelines and recommendations addressing uniform nomenclature of (human) genes and alleles, and computing standards to permit a moderate level of built-in redundancy, searchable interfaces, and compatibility between the comprehensive (genomic) and locus-specific types of databases. The participating community (developers and users) have been moving the project along rapidly, as described here.
authors.affiliation: DeBelle Laboratory, McGill University-Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute, Montreal, Canada. mc77@musica.mcgill.ca
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Scriver
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Nowacki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lehväslaiho
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D009626:Terminology as Topic