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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2021

Updates to HCOP: the HGNC comparison of orthology predictions tool.

Bethan Yates, Kristian A Gray, Tamsin E M Jones, Elspeth A Bruford

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Bethan YatesHUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Kristian A GrayHUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Tamsin E M JonesHUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Elspeth A BrufordHUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.

Funding

The Nomenclature of Human and Vertebrate GenesU24HG003345 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · PI Elspeth Bruford · 2018 to 2026
$3.9M
NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG003345Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 208349/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple resources currently exist that predict orthologous relationships between genes. These resources differ both in the methodologies used and in the species they make predictions for. The HGNC Comparison of Orthology Predictions (HCOP) search tool integrates and displays data from multiple ortholog prediction resources for a specified human gene or set of genes. An indication of the reliability of a prediction is provided by the number of resources that support it. HCOP was originally designed to show orthology predictions between human and mouse but has been expanded to include data from a current total of 20 selected vertebrate and model organism species. The HCOP pipeline used to fetch and integrate the information from the disparate ortholog and nomenclature data resources has recently been rewritten, both to enable the inclusion of new data and to take advantage of modern web technologies. Data from HCOP are used extensively in our work naming genes as the Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee (https://vertebrate.genenames.org).

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Sequence HomologySoftwareAnimalsComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticGenomicsHumansVertebratesWeb BrowserWorkflowaggregationmeta-databasenomenclatureorthologsvertebrateswebsite

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PMID33959747
PMCPMC8574622

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