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 each human gene.

By December 2003, the MGC had deposited more than 11,000 human 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 RL, et al. The mammalian gene collection. Science 1999;286:455-457.

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

LINKS

MGC homepage

MGC Project Summary

Ordering MGC Clones

RELATED LINKS

MGC Genome Browser

MGC Entrez Sequence Retrieval