Nomenclature may not be the hottest topic in biology. But it really is foundational for the organization of data, and crucial to bioinformatics resources. I first came into contact with the importance of standardized naming conventions when I worked at The Jackson Lab, which included part of the mouse gene nomenclature committee. As I began [...]
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