NIH Mammalian Gene Collection

OVERVIEW

The goal of the trans-NIH Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) is to attempt to identify and sequence a representative full-length open reading frame (ORF) clone for a finite number of rat genes.

By December 2003, the MGC had deposited more than 600 rat full-lenfth ORF sequences for non-redundant genes in GenBank. All clones generated by the MGC are publicly accessible to the biomedical research community through the IMAGE Consortium distributors.

CONTACTS

Daniela S. Gerhard
National Cancer Institute
mgchelp@mail.nih.gov

Elise A. Feingold
National Human Genome Research Institute
ef5j@nih.gov

REFERENCES

Strausberg et al. (1999) The mammalian gene collection. Science 286, 455-457.

Strausberg et al. (2002) Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 16899-16903.

LINKS

MGC Home Page

MGC Project Summary

Ordering MGC Clones

RELATED LINKS

MGC Genome Browser

MGC Entrez Sequence Retrieval