The success (or not) of HUGO nomenclature

Javier Tamames¹^,2 and Alfonso Valencia²

¹Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, Apartado Postal 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain

²Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC, Avenida Darwin 3, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:402doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-5-402


Published:	15 May 2006

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genetics

Abstract

Current usage of gene nomenclature is ambiguous and impairs the efficient handling of scientific information. Therefore it is important to propose guidelines to deal with this problem. This study attempts to evaluate the success of HUGO nomenclature for human genes. The results indicate that HUGO guidelines are not supported by the scientific community.