Help index

Browser Help

Since there are many different browsers and versions of browser being used across the world, here are some helpful tips to which browsers to use and how to enable javascript on your browser to make sure your user experience of our site is a good one.

Gene group help

Help and information related to the new gene group reports.

Request symbol help

Help page to offer guidance to those filling in the Request symbol form.

REST web-service help

The genenames.org REST web-service is a convenient and quick way of searching and fetching data from our database within a script/program. Users may request results as either XML or JSON making our data easier to parse.

Search help

Our search options allow users to search all of our active gene symbol reports, gene group reports and static web pages quickly and with ease. The search server utilises Apache Solr which offers a powerful full-text search, hit highlighting and faceted searching. Faceted searching allows you to search for a particular keyword and then filter the results by record/page type, locus group and locus type.

The search form can be found within the mast head of each page. Enter a search term within the search input box and click on the spy glass icon; the default option searches the whole site including gene symbol reports and gene groups. Users can also click on the drop down to the left of the input box and search only specific areas of the site (i.e symbols, gene groups or static web pages).

Statistics & downloads help

Details about the download files contained within the statistics & downloads page and fields contain within.

Symbol report help

Each gene with an approved HGNC symbol has its own Symbol Report that contains our manually curated data and links to many other external biomedical resources. The HGNC "core data" is displayed at the top of the page in a separate box and presents the approved nomenclature, the unique HGNC ID number, synonyms, previous nomenclature, locus type, chromosomal location, gene groups and a HCOP orthology prediction link. The table below the HGNC "core data" provides links to external resources such as homologs in other species (i.e mouse and rat), nucleotide sequences, gene resources, protein resources, clinical resources, publications and other database links.