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  • Winter newsletter 2021

    Newsletters  · 25 Feb 2021

    Credit: Dr Susan Tweedie “Snowdrops at the HGNC outpost in Minto Glen”

    Beta version of new genenames.org search released

    Earlier this month, we released a beta version of an improved search for genenames.org. The main improvements compared to our current search are as follows:

    • One search [Read more]
  • New and improved HGNC search available on beta.genenames.org

    HGNC, Search  · 10 Feb 2021
    'I know the gene symbol begins with MAP ... Ah got it!'
    'I know the gene symbol begins with MAP ... Ah got it!'

    Over the past few years we have collated user feedback about our current HGNC search. We have listened to suggestions on how we could improve [Read more]

  • Autumn newsletter 2020

    Newsletters  · 26 Nov 2020

    Coming soon - an improved search for genenames.org

    We are excited to announce that we are finalising a new version of the search engine for genenames.org. The look and feel will not significantly change but the search will feature an autosuggest function which will let the user [Read more]

  • 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]

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