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First comprehensive open access overview of 500 human SLC and SLC-like proteins.
This publication was a collaboration with our SLC specialist advisor Matthias Hediger and his colleague Gergely Gyimesi from the University of Bern.
To read, visit: journals.physiology.org/doi/…
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Colleagues at PomBase & FlyBase outline current funding issues that HGNC recently experienced and undoubtedly will again. The funding landscape for bioresources is looking bleak and something needs to change. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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The HGNC looks forward to working within the TransCODE Consortium to name micropeptides and peptideins, a new class of non-canonical ORFs nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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We'd like to celebrate #worldhormoneday and show our support for the endocrine research community by sharing some hormone related gene groups: the receptor ligands: genenames.org/data/genegroup… #becausehormonesmatter.
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For all the latest HGNC news, including updates to our VGNC dataset, please read our Spring newsletter blog.genenames.org/hgnc/2026…
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As one of the GBC's (@globalbiodata) Global Core Biodata Resources HGNC are delighted to hear of this new European Commission funding for the important work of the GBC.
globalbiodata.org/european-c…
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HGNC supports everyone affected by rare diseases. To find out more about the #LIG4 gene you can visit our symbol report and gene group page for the ligase family genenames.org/data/genegroup…
🎙️ In Rare Disease Day week, #EURORDISRareOnAir shares its final episode, Stephanie’s story.
Her daughter’s fight with #LIG4 syndrome shows a mother’s love, courage, and hope through misdiagnoses, travel, and the search for a cure. 💜
🎧 Listen now: eurordis.org/rare-on-air/
ALT “Rare on Air Stories” in white text over blue, purple, and green painted streaks, with a microphone icon behind Stephanie in a while shirt, and the text: “Stephanie, Episode 9.”
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Read our new paper "Naming the alpha-2-macroglobulin gene family across vertebrates" rdcu.be/e2ufP where we name genes in this peptidase inhibitor family including the ovostatins which were first identified in chicken egg white. 🐔🥚🍳
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If you’re attending #PAG33 today please go and see Elspeth at poster number P481 from 3-4.30pm to learn all about our work as the PGNC naming genes in the poplar tree
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If you’re attending #PAG33 in San Diego please consider going to hear Elspeth talk about all things HGBC/VGNC/PGNC in the Integrated Genome Resources at EMBL-EBI workshop tomorrow at 9.40am
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If you're thinking of a new job for 2026 consider these positions with our collaborators in the Ensembl-GENCODE group
The HAVANA team @emblebi has multiple open positions to support the GENCODE & PARADIGM projects. We're recruiting annotators (bit.ly/4qG28g5), an annotation project lead (bit.ly/4qv05v6), & bioinformaticians (bit.ly/4qevYIY). We’d love to hear from you!
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sib.swiss/news/amos-bairoch-… HGNC are truly shocked and saddened to hear this; Amos was a true force of nature in the field of bioinformatics and will be hugely missed.
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HGNC is pleased to announce that our latest NAR database paper is now live - see doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1229 for HGNC updates and an introduction to the PGNC project
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For all the latest HGNC news, including a new way to cite HGNC and PGNC code, please read our Autumn newsletter blog.genenames.org/hgnc/2025…
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Elspeth is presenting a poster (2039F) on our gene groups at the #ASHG25 in Boston between 2.30pm and 4.30pm EDT today so please drop by and say hello!
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We’re pleased to announce the rename of C18ORF21 to RMP24, see our collaborative publication: Composition and RNA binding specificity of metazoan RNase MRP (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4086…)
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Elspeth, the HGNC PI, is pleased to have joined the journal GENETICS as a new Associate Editor genestogenomes.org/genetics-…
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For all the latest HGNC updates, and to find out which gene makes cats ginger, please read our Winter newsletter buff.ly/3FbUs2w
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