Gene IDs for use with GeneMerge

The gene IDs used are the most stable identifiers for each organism, often those used in organism-specific databases or those used in GO annotations.

There is an updated (April 2007) Gene Name Converter for human, fly, mouse, yeast, and Arabidopsis genes to translate different gene names into the standard ones that you can use in GeneMerge. Please do this before running GeneMerge or you won't get anything out!

If you work with another organism make sure your gene names match the IDs below.

Below are example gene IDs for each species and where they come from if I've figured it out.

SpeciesGene ID ExampleID Origin
Arabidopsis thalianaAT3G61040.1 and CLE10TAIR ID
Bacillus anthracis AmesBA0001TIGR ID
Bacillus subtilisaapASubtiList genename
Bos taurusENSBTAP00000020276 / XP_001253159 / Q3T0Y3Mixture of ENSEMBL, NCBI Locus and UniProtKB Entries
Caenorhabditis elegans unc-26 / R13A5.9 / CE0271Mixture of Wormbase genes (unc-26), predicted genes (R13A5.9), and protein IDs (CE0271)
Danio rerioZDB-GENE-000112-30ZFIN ID
Drosophila melanogasterFBgn0002524FlyBase Identifier
Gallus gallusQ5ZKI3 / XP_417416UniProtKB/TrEMBL and NCBI Loci
Glossina morsitans (Tsetse Fly)CONTIG3098Sanger/TIGR ID
Homo sapiensQ07666 / ENSP00000020673 / OTTHUMP00000167985Mixture of TrEMBL, ENSEMBL, and Sanger IDs
Leishmania majorL1156.01TIGR ID
Mus musculusMGI:1913840MGI Identifier
Oryza sativa (Rice)Q94LI7UniProtKB/SPDTrEMBL
Plasmodium falciparumMAL13P1.109PlasmoDB ID
Rattus norvegicusRGD:2007 / ENSRNOP00000018009RGD and ENSEMBL IDs
Saccharomyces cerevisiaeYGL011CSGD Identifier
Schizosaccharomyces pombeSPCC1795.01CSangner ID
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1SO0001TIGR ID
Trypanosoma bruceiTb927.1.05TIGR/Sanger ID
Vibrio choleraeVC0014TIGR ID
Virus Bioinformatics59500?

Note: I don't know why GO and the organism databases supply mixtures of gene names for the GO annotations. It's maddening I know... but please don't blame me!



GeneMerge - Post-genomic analysis, data mining, and hypothesis testing

Cristian I. Castillo-Davis
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
castill0@umd.edu