An alias is a gene identifier from an outside organization or database. Inside the NMPDR's data structures, the FigId is used for each gene. Each gene also has a list of aliases. There may be none, or there may be a dozen. Refseq IDs are included without change, but most of the other aliases use a prefix to identify the type. The prefix ends with either a vertical bar (
|) or colon ( :). For example, the gene with a FigId of fig|100226.1.peg.3361 has the following aliases.
- GeneID:1098838, its Gene ID
- gi|21221828, its Genbank ID
- kegg|sco:SCO3401, its KEGG ID
- NP_627607.1, its Refseq ID
- LocusTag:SCO3401, its Genome Reviews ID
- tr|Q9X8I1, its TREMBL ID
- uni|Q9X8I1, its UniProt ID
Topic revision: r3 - 17 Mar 2008 - 21:00:03 - LeslieMcNeil
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