Gene Name Thesaurus

We extracted synonyms described in databases such as Entrez Gene, Swiss-Prot and HGNC.

1. Collect gene names automatically from synonym information fields in various gene/genome databases.
2. The curators who have expertise in biological research confirm the name variation for genes and associate them. They also delete names which are confusing to associate (polysemy, acronyms for different genes etc.).
3. Extract words describe gene names from MEDLINE abstracts and collect unregistered names.
4. Evaluate detection performance of gene names in the dictionary.
5. Add non-detected words to the dictionary and repeat 4-5 using other literature set.

Gene family Number of genes: 12,110 Number of names: 27,923 Human Number of genes: 27,959 Number of names: 145,623 Mouse Number of genes: 48,545 Number of names: 173,375 Rat Number of genes: 17,319 Number of names: 61,801 Zebrafish Number of genes: 24,230 Number of names: 60,270 Fruit fly Number of genes: 30,708 Number of names: 96,934 Nematode Number of genes: 25,304 Number of names: 96,220 Budding yeast Number of genes: 7,359 Number of names: 29,533 Fission yeast Number of genes: 7,943 Number of names: 15,431 Bacillus subtilis Number of genes: 4,206 Number of names: 14,816