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]
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]
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton where the main HGNC office is located has been closed since Wednesday 18th March, so we have all been working from home for over 2 months and counting. Although we [Read more]
This month we are celebrating the publication of our work on a new naming system for olfactory receptor genes in vertebrates. This work was done in collaboration with olfactory receptor experts at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Tsviya Olender and Doron Lancet, and [Read more]
While most of you will mainly be interested in human genes, did you know that we also provide an easy way to find orthologs (equivalent genes in another species) of human genes using our HCOP (HGNC Comparison of Orthology Predictions) tool?
HCOP brings together data for 19 [Read more]