Guidelines and recommendations for content, structure, and deployment of mutation databases: II. Journey in progress.
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.
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DeBelle Laboratory, McGill University-Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute, Montreal, Canada. mc77@musica.mcgill.ca
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D016208:Databases, Factual; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D009626:Terminology as Topic