title: Genew: the human gene nomenclature database.
abstract: Genew, the Human Gene Nomenclature Database, is the only resource that provides data for all human genes which have approved symbols. It is managed by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) as a confidential database, containing over 16 000 records, 80% of which are represented on the Web by searchable text files. The data in Genew are highly curated by HGNC editors and gene records can be searched on the Web by symbol or name to directly retrieve information on gene symbol, gene name, cytogenetic location, OMIM number and PubMed ID. Data are integrated with other human gene databases, e.g. GDB, LocusLink and SWISS-PROT, and approved gene symbols are carefully co-ordinated with the Mouse Genome Database (MGD). Approved gene symbols are available for querying and browsing at http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nomenclature/searchgenes.pl.
authors.affiliation: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), Department of Biology, University College London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK. nome@galton.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Hester M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Wain
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lush
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ducluzeau
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Povey
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D003625:Data Collection; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D009626:Terminology as Topic