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<span class="headlines">Transitioning from LocusLink to Entrez Gene</span><span class="bodycopy" width="488"><br><br>
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A gene-based view of annotated genomes is essential to capitalize on the increase in the sequencing and analysis of model genomes. The Entrez Gene database has been developed to supply key connections between maps, sequences, expression profiles, structure, function, homology data, and the scientific literature. Unique identifiers are assigned to genes with defining sequence, genes with known map positions, and genes inferred from phenotypic information. These gene identifiers are tracked, and functional information is added when available. Access Entrez Gene from the Entrez Home Page or directly at:
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<div align="center" class="links2"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene</a></span></div>
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<p class="bodycopy">The Entrez Gene help document provides tips to ease the transition for LocusLink users to the current Entrez Gene database.</p>
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<p class="bodycopy">The default display format for Entrez Gene is the graphics display shown in Figure 1 for BMP7, which resembles the traditional view of a LocusLink record.</p>
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<p align="left"><b><span class="captions">Figure 1</span></b><span class="captions">:</span> <span class="captions2">Entrez Gene display for human BMP7, showing links to over 20 related resources in the "Links" pulldown menu. </span></p>
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<p align="left" class="bodycopy">The array of colored boxes at the head of LocusLink reports that provide links to gene-related resources is replaced by the <20>Links<6B> menu in Gene, which includes additional links, such as those to Books, GEO, UniSTS, and Taxonomy. The Gene Transcripts and Products section is provided when a gene has been annotated on a genomic Reference Sequence (RefSeq) and intron, exon, and coding region information is available with genomic coordinates. Each accession given in this section is a link to a menu allowing the display of the sequence in several formats. Protein accessions provide menu options to navigate to BLink, CDD, or COG displays. This section is equivalent to the RNA-Genomic alignment available from the graphic at the top of a LocusLink entry. In the case of the Gene record for BMP7, NC_000020 is the accession number of the genomic contig that contains the gene. Clicking on the <20>NC_000020<32> link brings up a menu used to select one of several displays of the contig within the genomic range of the gene BMP7.
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<p align="left" class="bodycopy">The Entrez Gene record<72>s <20>General Gene Information<6F> section summarizes information contained in LocusLink<6E>s <20>Function<6F>, <20>Relationships<70> and <20>Map Information<6F> sections. This section includes several categories of information, such as Gene Ontology (GO), Homology, Phenotypes, Markers, Pathways and Relationships.
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<p align="left" class="bodycopy">The remaining sections of an Entrez Gene record-<span class="bodycopy" width="488">“</span>NCBI Reference Sequences<65>, <20>Related Sequences<65>, and <20>Additional Links<6B>-are equivalent to the corresponding entries in the LocusLink report. The first section lists gene-specific NCBI RefSeqs, provides links to the appropriate Entrez sequence database, and gives descriptions of each transcript variant, the accession numbers of sequences used to support the RefSeqs, and a listing of conserved domains found in the encoded proteins. The <20>Related Sequences<65> section lists the nucleotide and protein accessions of sequences that are related to the gene, and provides links to the sequence records in Entrez. The <20>Additional Links<6B> section provides a printable view of a subset of links to information both within and external to NCBI. Some of these links overlap those included in the Links menu. The intent of this section is to provide a printable report of, for example, MIM numbers, UniGene cluster numbers, and family-specific Web sites.
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<p align="left" class="bodycopy">Entrez Gene can be considered as the successor to LocusLink, but Gene improves on LocusLink by providing coverage of more NCBI reference genomes, by providing additional display formats, and by its integration with other databases within NCBI<42>s Entrez system. Users can query Gene via the powerful query features of Entrez, using Boolean operators, filters, and field limiters, such as accession number, gene name, protein name, disease/phenotype, and map location. Users can search for records in Entrez Gene using any of the search strategies in the shaded box.
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<p align="left" class="tables style1">(human [organism] OR mouse [organism] OR rat [organism]) AND bmp7 </p>
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<p align="left" class="bodycopy">Like other Entrez databases, Gene offers a number of display formats beyond the default <20>Graphical<61> format. Additional formats include an XML format and a <20>Gene Table<6C> view, providing access to the sequences of each of the gene<6E>s exons and introns.
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<p align="left"><b><span class="captions">Table 1</span></b><span class="captions">:</span> <span class="captions2">LocusLink to Gene feature transition chart. The help documentation covers the conversion of the master LocusLink FTP file, "LL_tmpl", to the Entrezgene.asn format. The Entrezgene.asn data will be available on the Gene FTP site in the near future. </span></p>
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<p align="left" class="bodycopy">The array of colored boxes at the head of LocusLink reports that provide links to gene-related resources is replaced by the <20>Links<6B> menu in Gene, which includes additional links, such as those to Books, GEO, UniSTS, and Taxonomy. The Gene Transcripts and Products section is provided when a gene has been annotated on a genomic Reference Sequence (RefSeq) and intron, exon, and coding region information is available with genomic coordinates. Each accession given in this section is a link to a menu allowing the display of the sequence in several formats. Protein accessions provide menu options to navigate to BLink, CDD, or COG displays. This section is equivalent to the RNA-Genomic alignment available from the graphic at the top of a LocusLink entry. In the case of the Gene record for BMP7, NC_000020 is the accession number of the genomic contig that contains the gene. Clicking on the <20>NC_000020<32> link brings up a menu used to select one of several displays of the contig within the genomic range of the gene BMP7.
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