Does it really matter if researchers choose to use their favourite aliases to refer to genes in their manuscripts instead of using their HGNC approved symbols? Sadly, the use of unapproved aliases can not only cause confusion and wasted experiments in the laboratory, but even more worryingly, confusion in [Read more]
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an ongoing pandemic caused by a new form of coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), has dominated the news for the past 18 months and still influences our lives in many aspects.
International research on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 molecular biology is [Read more]
We are delighted to introduce our new curator, Liora Vilmovsky, who has joined us to work primarily on our project to stabilise symbols for clinically relevant genes. You can read Liora’s post on our blog site to learn [Read more]
My name is Liora Vilmovsky and I’m a new Gene Nomenclature Advisor at the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) team at EMBL-EBI. My new role with the HGNC is focused on stabilising symbols for clinically relevant genes.
Figure reproduced from Shololenko and Alexeyev, 2015 with permission from M. Alexeyev (PMID: 26071375).
Mitochondria are vital for cellular energy and these mini power stations require the coordinated effort of over 1000 proteins (PMID:20690818). While the majority of these are encoded by genes within the nuclear genome, [Read more]