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Chilibot dictionary of gene/protein synonyms. |
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| Database |
Number of gene symbols collected |
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| SwissProt |
84462 |
| LocusLink |
23924 |
| GDB |
15770 |
| HUGO |
15905 |
| OMIM |
8291 |
| SGD |
4325 |
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Flat text file versions of the six databases were downloaded from their corresponding ftp sites. Synonym pairs were extracted from the corresponding fields and entries with the same symbol from the six databases were then combined in a case insensitive manner. (HUGO: Human Genome Organization; OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man; SGD: Saccharomyces Genome Database) | |
Chen and Sharp BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:147 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-147 |
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