Letter to the Editor

A large-scale proteomics analysis of the dark proteome by the TransCODE Consortium reveals many translated non-canonical open reading frames to encode microproteins and peptideins.

VGNC Updates The VGNC project is green for go! We are delighted to announce that, following a pause that has allowed us to migrate the back end database onto cloud storage, we are able to update the d...

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our co-founder and Group Leader Amos Bairoch. Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, he shaped the development of bioinformatics over more th...

Abstract. The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), based at the University of Cambridge, approves unique symbols and descriptive names for human genes.

Thanks to our SAB We would like to thank the members of our Scientific Advisory Board for attending our annual meeting; this time the meeting was virtual but we are looking forward to an in person mee...

Ribonuclease (RNase) MRP is a conserved RNA-based enzyme best known for its essential role in the maturation of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) in eukaryotes. However, the composition and RNA substrate…

Welcome to James We are delighted to introduce our new programmer, James McClay, who joined the team in March of this year. James is originally from Devon (UK) and has a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics…

A new Associate Editor is joining GENETICS in the Computational Resources, Software, and Databases section. We’re excited to welcome Elspeth Bruford to the editorial team.

Spotlight on lncRNAs One of the current key aims for the HGNC is naming long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes and in this newsletter we would like to highlight some of the lncRNA genes that we have…

Technical Specialist (Fixed Term) in the Department of Haematology at the University of Cambridge.

HGNC is funded for another 5 years! We have had a testing time in the last year, as anyone who follows the HGNC will be aware and have been reliant on bridge funding. We are therefore delighted to ann...