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Compendium of tools for the Imaging Platform
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Consider gene resource to link out to #17

Open AnneCarpenter opened 9 months ago

AnneCarpenter commented 9 months ago

I was showing a colleague who is working on a couple of diseases associated with the gene DLG4. I noticed that the NCBI link we use doesn't list the diseases associated with a gene, which is an odd omission: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/1742

By contrast, GeneCards does (but is only available for use by academics): https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=DLG4

So I wonder if we could chat with people who think about these databases all the time to find one that is completely openly available but also has disease info.

afermg commented 7 months ago

(I presume this is about the jump_rr interfaces). To implement such a feature the main challenge is to ensure that the gene ID we have corresponds to the genecards id. Depending of how much of a priority this is I may be able to allocate some time to find an accurate translator and add that external resource to our datasettes.

AnneCarpenter commented 7 months ago

Not a priority - and the first step would be to decide which source to link to; GeneCards may not be the best choice anyway.