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]
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]