Research Guides: Genomic Medicine: Genomic Databases

Look up a gene symbol or name

Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC)
A curated online repository of HGNC-approved gene nomenclature, gene families and more. Unique gene symbols and names to over 37,000 human genes, around 19,000 are protein coding. All approved symbols are stored in the HGNC database. Each symbol is unique and we ensure that each gene is only given one approved gene symbol. It is necessary to provide a unique symbol for each gene so that we and others can talk about them, and this also facilitates electronic data retrieval from publications and databases.

Databases

Bacteriology Abstracts
Bacteriology Abstracts contains a range of topics from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. The database also includes access at clinical findings and all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interdisciplinary journal that provides research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging.
BIOSIS Citation Index (1994-present)
BIOSIS Citation Index (1994-present) Covers all areas in the life sciences, as molecular and cell biology, pharmacology, endocrinology, genetics, neurosciences, infectious diseases, and ecology and organismal biology. It contains journals and non-journal coverage, as well as books and U.S. patents.
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group (NPG), provides access to Nature journals in a variety of fields including biotechnology, cancer, medicine, genetics, immunology, materials science, microbiology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, and pharmacology. From this site you can search all the Nature journals we subscribe to, or you can search within subjects or individual journal titles.

PubMed Clinical Queries (medical genetics)
Clinicaltrials.gov
The site provides information about federally and privately funded clinical research with human volunteers. A search using a keyword, such as "genetic", can be combined with diseases, conditions, location, treatment, sponsor, and more.
NCBI Query: Global Cross-Database Search
Use simple genetic terms to search this protal across the NLM NCBI databases or use to quickly access NCBI databases such as Nucleotide, Genome, Protein, Gene and many more.
NCBI Gene
This NCBI reference database integrates information from various species. Search with a gene name or by a genetic disease.
NCBI GeneReviews
GeneReviews are expert-authored, peer-reviewed disease descriptions focused on clinically relevant and medically actionable information on the diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling of patients and families with specific inherited conditions.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
OMIM contains information on all known mendelian disorders and over 15,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contains links to literature references, sequence records, a clinical synopsis, and related databases such as clinicaltrials.gov, Gene Reviews, and GHR.
GARD-Genetics and Rare Diseases
GARD provides the public with access to current, reliable, and easy-to-understand information about rare or genetic diseases in English or Spanish.
Genome Statute and Legislation Database
This database is comprised of state statutes and bills introduced during the 2007-2017 U.S. state legislative sessions. The database is reviewed and updated monthly. Searchable topics in the database include employment and insurance discrimination, health insurance coverage, privacy, research, the use of residual newborn screening specimens, and other topics of interest.
GWAS-Genome Wide Association Studies Catalog
NHGRI and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) catalog publications based on genome-wide association studies.
Orphanet
Portal for rare diseases and international orphan drugs.
ENCODE-Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
International research group collaboration building a list of comprehensive functional elements in the human genome.
HuGE Reviews Navigator

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of journal citations; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.
Embase
EMBASE contains references to journal articles in biomedicine. The references consist of authors, title, journal data, abstract and keywords. EMBASE contains European literature, and coverage in the field of drug research, pharmacology and pharmaceutics. The database can be searched back to 1974.
Web of Science
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It also includes access to EndNote Online.

MarkerDB
A free electronic database that attempts to consolidate information on all known clinical and a selected set of pre-clinical molecular biomarkers into a single resource.