The VGNC: expanding standardized vertebrate gene nomenclature.
Tamsin E M Jones, Bethan Yates, Bryony Braschi, Kristian Gray, Susan Tweedie, Ruth L Seal, Elspeth A Bruford
Author Information
Tamsin E M Jones: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK. tjones@ebi.ac.uk. ORCID
Bethan Yates: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Bryony Braschi: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Kristian Gray: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Susan Tweedie: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Ruth L Seal: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Elspeth A Bruford: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
The Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee (VGNC) was established in 2016 as a sister project to the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, to approve gene nomenclature in vertebrate species without an existing dedicated nomenclature committee. The VGNC aims to harmonize gene nomenclature across selected vertebrate species in line with human gene nomenclature, with orthologs assigned the same nomenclature where possible. This article presents an overview of the VGNC project and discussion of key findings resulting from this work to date. VGNC-approved nomenclature is accessible at https://vertebrate.genenames.org and is additionally displayed by the NCBI, Ensembl, and UniProt databases.
