This nomenclature workshop will take place in Edinburgh as a satellite meeting before HGM 2001 (http://hgm2001.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/contents.htm), in the morning of 19th April.

Workshop Report

Introduction

Following the success of the workshop held before the 50th Annual ASHG Meeting, we are holding another small meeting to discuss the human genomic draft sequence and its annotation and interpretation within the various online databases. Participation will be open to all, but we ask that you notify us in advance of your intent to attend.

Program

09:00    Review of ASHG-NW - Hester Wain (HGNC)
09:10    "Genome Annotation with Ensembl" Tim Hubbard (Sanger)
09:30    "Annotating genes at NCBI" Donna Maglott (NCBI)
09:50   Chaired discussion:

Sources of human data - clarity for identification of same sequence

Integrity of gene symbol mapping between databases

Cytogenetic location - verification

Gene families - correct identification of individual members

International Advisory Committee

Confidentiality of gene names and symbols

Funding

There is currently no funding available for expenses for this workshop.

Contact

All enquiries should be sent to  Dr Hester Wain, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, EMBL Outstation - Hinxton
European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge
CB10 1SD
, UK. Fax: +44-20-7387-3496.
hgnc@genenames.org