Gene Name Thesaurus

2012/01/17

WebSite: http://lifesciencedb.jp/MEXT_H18/ii-7d71540862808853958b767a30fb63d04f9b/ii-1-8f9e66f830b730bd30fc30e930b9/907a4f1d5b50540d79f030b730bd30fc30e930b9
HTTPS Site: https://dbarchive.biosciencedbc.jp/data/lsdb_gene_thesaurus

Gene names and gene family names were collected for 9 different organisms (including human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, fruit fly, nematode, budding yeast, fission yeast, Bacillus subtilis), and associated with parallel relationship (synonym) and hierarchical relationship (family name). Acronym notation and IDs of typical gene/genome databases are also treated as names.

README Content

  1. Database Component
  2. Data Description
  3. License
  4. Update History
  5. Literature
  6. Contact address

1. Database Component

  1. README
  2. Gene Name Thesaurus
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2. Data Description

2.1 README

Data name README
Description of data contents HTML file to describe "Gene Name Thesaurus" data.
File README_e.html(English)
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2.2 Gene Name Thesaurus

Data name Gene Name Thesaurus
Description of data contents

Curators who have expertize in biological research edit gene names found in various databases and articles to show associations between them.

File dictionary.zip(4.6MB)
Data items are the following:
Data item Description (Reference information)
SWISS-PROT_IDID of SWISS-PROT
EntrezGene_IDID of EntrezGene
Other_IDID of databases other than above
Gene_NameGene name
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3. License

Last updated : 2012/01/17

The license for this database is the license specified in the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan.
If you use data from this database, please be sure attribute this database as follows: "Gene Name Thesaurus, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed by CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan".

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3.3 About Providing Links to This Database

You can freely provide links to all contents in this database. But, contents might be changed without notice.

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4. Update History

Date Update contents
2012/01/17 "License" is updated.
2010/03/29 Gene Name Thesaurus English archive site is opened.
2007/3 Gene Name Thesaurus is released in MEXT Integrated Database Project FY2006 release website(http://lifesciencedb.jp/MEXT_H18/).
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5. Literature

6. Contact address

When you have any question about "Gene Name Thesaurus", contact the following:

Database Center for Life Science
Research Organization of Information and Systems

E-mail : info [at] dbcls [dot] rois [dot] ac [dot] jp

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