title: Entrez Gene: gene-centered information at NCBI.
abstract: Entrez Gene (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene) is NCBI's database for gene-specific information. Entrez Gene includes records from genomes that have been completely sequenced, that have an active research community to contribute gene-specific information or that are scheduled for intense sequence analysis. The content of Entrez Gene represents the result of both curation and automated integration of data from NCBI's Reference Sequence project (RefSeq), from collaborating model organism databases and from other databases within NCBI. Records in Entrez Gene are assigned unique, stable and tracked integers as identifiers. The content (nomenclature, map location, gene products and their attributes, markers, phenotypes and links to citations, sequences, variation details, maps, expression, homologs, protein domains and external databases) is provided via interactive browsing through NCBI's Entrez system, via NCBI's Entrez programing utilities (E-Utilities), and for bulk transfer by ftp.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-6510, USA. maglott@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maglott
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ostell
authors.forename: Kim D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Pruitt
authors.forename: Tatiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tatusova
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005796:Genes; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface