What is the Mouse Genome Informatics Database?
What is it?
The Mouse Genome Informatics database provides highly curated data on the genetics of the laboratory mouse for all of its various strains.
It provides data on gene characterization, nomenclature, mapping, gene homologies among mammals, sequence links, phenotypes, allelic variants and mutants, and strain data, integrated genetic and physical maps.
What is it for?
- Getting a rapid understanding of a gene and all of its properties (example).
- Understanding the genomic organization of genes; mapping a gene
- Understanding the genetics of a gene in the classical genetic sense
- Searching for a mouse strain with a given phenotypic profile and associated gene, whether fully identified or not
- Searching for markers
- Understanding the exon/intron structure of a gene
- Accessing comprehensive information about a gene, its transcript(s) and protein(s), structure, activity, and location
- Obtaining genomic sequence
- Comparative genomics: finding homologs
What's in it?
Covers the following data types for many strains and species of
Mus:
- Genomic sequences
- Phenotypic data
- Protein function data
- Gene structure
- Association with diseases
- Homology and orthology data
Key references
Source
Lane Librarian
Record created 5/2/2006
ypouliot, September 16, 2009