title: GeneCards 2002: towards a complete, object-oriented, human gene compendium.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the post-genomic era, functional analysis of genes requires a sophisticated interdisciplinary arsenal. Comprehensive resources are challenged to provide consistently improving, state-of-the-art tools.
  
  
  RESULTS
  GeneCards (Rebhan et al., 1998) has made innovative strides: (a). regular updates and enhancements incorporating new genes enriched with sequences, genomic locations, cDNA assemblies, orthologies, medical information, 3D protein structures, gene expression, and focused SNP summaries; (b). restructured software using object-oriented Perl, migration to schema-driven XML, and (c). pilot studies, introducing methods to produce cards for novel and predicted genes.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Molecular Genetics Biological Services (Bioinformatics Unit) Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. marilyn.safran@weizmann.ac.il
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Safran
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.forename: Orit
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Shmueli
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lapidot
authors.forename: Shai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shen-Orr
authors.forename: Avital
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adato
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ben-Dor
authors.forename: Nir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Esterman
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.forename: Inga
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peter
authors.forename: Tsviya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Olender
authors.forename: Vered
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chalifa-Caspi
authors.forename: Doron
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lancet
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods