Transcripts Are The Mane Attraction

This guest blog post has been contributed by Jane Loveland who works in the Ensembl-Havana gene annotation group who are long term collaborators of the HGNC.

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Winter newsletter 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

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

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

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]