Interesting question and one we've been discussing in other contexts.
HGNC is only valid for human genes of course, and not all species have
this type of sign off on ids. I would use an Ensembl id, from there you
can get other id cross references
best
Helen
On 10/11/2010 10:24, Christoph Grabmuller wrote:
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM, mdmiller<mdmille...@comcast.net> wrote:
this i've seen as more a de facto best practice than anything for
identifying a sequence (but i'm not sure what you mean by a standard input
format).
I meant: what are valid and/or (minimally) required ways to refer to a
gene? Is it enough to just give the HGNC symbol? Could I instead just
use entrez or ensembl ids?
C
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