Table 1

Chilibot dictionary of gene/protein synonyms.

Database
Number of gene symbols collected

SwissProt
84462
LocusLink
23924
GDB
15770
HUGO
15905
OMIM
8291
SGD
4325

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