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  • Naming Pseudogenes

    HGNC  · 09 Nov 2020

    In amongst the functional genes encoding proteins, the human genome contains a myriad of non-functional gene copies and gene fragments – known as pseudogenes. By naming these pseudogenes we help to reveal their relationships to their functional gene relatives, and to ‘label’ the genome more fully . However, [Read more]

  • New Guidelines 2020

    HGNC  · 28 Sep 2020

    A closer look at our more recent HGNC guideline updates

    The last blog post featured our Summer Newsletter, and we discussed some of the issues brought up in our Nature Genetics comment article on our guidelines including mention of our solution for the “Excel auto-changing [Read more]

  • Summer newsletter 2020

    Newsletters  · 28 Aug 2020

    Fewer changes, other species, and no more dates – the new HGNC guidelines have been released!

    We are delighted to announce that we have published a comment article about updates to our nomenclature guidelines. The citation in Nature Genetics can be viewed in the ‘Publications’ section below. A [Read more]

  • Aristotle’s hen house

    VGNC, Guest Post  · 30 Jul 2020

    This guest blog post has been contributed by Fiona McCarthy, a member of our Scientific Advisory board.

    While today chickens are perhaps best known as the key ingredient in tikka masala, they have been used since 335 BCE to understand how life is created and formed. [Read more]

  • WFH - a day in the life of two of our curators

    HGNC, VGNC  · 26 Jun 2020

    Ruth’s day

    Thursday morning - the second ‘proper’ working day of the week for me as I work part-time. I have two sons, one aged 7 and the other aged 4, neither of whom have anywhere to go currently during my working week. At least I don’t have [Read more]

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