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]
We are excited to announce the paper describing the Gene Curation Coalition (GenCC)’s global effort to harmonise gene–disease evidence resources is now published in Genetics in Medicine (available via this link until June 23rd 2022).
Figuring out which genes to [Read more]