We are excited to announce that we have expanded our REST API so that you can now query both HGNC and VGNC data! The genenames.org REST web-service is a convenient and quick way of searching and fetching data from our database within [Read more]
Alphafold uses artificial intelligence to predict the 3D structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences. The system was developed as a collaboration between DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
The HGNC are currently looking into using AlphaFold as [Read more]
The HGNC now provides a shared Globus endport for HGNC data. Globus is a non-profit service for secure, reliable research data management and transfer. Transferring files via Globus is quick and is not affected by network glitches that may corrupt the transferred file. [Read more]
The HGNC is keen to engage with patient groups when possible, as their input can help us to assign meaningful, functionally informative and importantly, non-pejorative gene nomenclature.
We have discussed the nomenclature update for [Read more]