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  • Winter newsletter 2020

    Newsletters  · 28 Feb 2020

    Pig genes now in VGNC

    We are pleased to announce that one of our first major achievements of 2020 is the addition of domestic pig genes to our VGNC resource! We had long been interested in adding pig due to its medical and economic relevance, but previous [Read more]

  • New year, new VGNC species!

    VGNC  · 24 Jan 2020

    As we welcome in the new year we will also soon be bidding farewell to the Chinese year of the pig, so to mark this we are excited to announce that we are adding the domestic pig to our VGNC resource!

    The VGNC database provides official gene [Read more]

  • Multi-symbol checker tool - does your paper use HGNC approved symbols?

    HGNC  · 20 Dec 2019

    Check your nomenclature pre-publication

    We realise that many of our users will come to our website and simply use our main search box. But did you know that we also have a tool that allows you to upload a large list of symbols and lets you know whether [Read more]

  • Autumn newsletter 2019

    Newsletters  · 29 Nov 2019

    Thanks to our Scientific Advisory Board

    We would like to thank all the members of our SAB for attending our annual meeting, held here at EMBL-EBI from 7-8 November. We were pleased to welcome two new board members: Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith is the Arthur Balfour Professor [Read more]

  • Stable symbols - improving scientific communication long-term

    HGNC, TGMI  · 31 Oct 2019

    Why should gene symbols be stable?

    Wherever possible we avoid changing gene symbols, but occasionally this is necessary, as we described in our last post. In this post we explain how we have progressed from simply avoiding symbol changes to assessing if some gene symbols are likely [Read more]

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