"MGI" versus "Jackson Lab" on gene links & databases

[Joanne Berghout]

Hello,

I was on the UCSC browser and clicked a gene for more info (LRTOMT; http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGene?hgg_gene=uc010rqw.2&hgg_prot=Q8WZ04&hgg_chrom=chr11&hgg_start=71791376&hgg_end=71821828&hgg_type=knownGene&db=hg19&hgsid=412697467_U9YB7LlwuyQLGmsgpLvyJii6afaA).

I noticed in the “Sequence and Links to Tools and Databases” box you use the title “Jackson Lab” but link to Mouse Genome Informatics.  MGI is actually an NHGRI funded database research project which annotates data from the entire research community, not just JAX mice - would you be willing to relabel the field as “MGI” or “Mouse Genome Informatics” instead of “Jackson Lab” to reflect this? A lot of people conflate the two which is not a huge deal, but we like to have a little separate visibility/branding where we can in order to justify (and maintain) our funding!

Thanks,

Joanne Berghout, PhD

Outreach Coordinator, Mouse Genome Informatics

600 Main St., Bar Harbor, ME 04609

(207) 288-6426

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[Jonathan Casper]

Hello Joanne,

Thank you for your request that we change the names of the links to your lab. We are happy to do this for you! The links are built into our CGIs so it will take a bit of time for the changes to propagate out, but it should be finished by the end of our next CGI release cycle on March 17th.

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Jonathan Casper
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group

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