The EMMA Database: A Curation Perspective

The EMMA database gathers and curates extensive data on each mouse strain and presents it through a user-friendly website. The primary goal of the data curation work is to define and provide gene/allele and strain names/symbols, according to the rules defined by the 'International Standards of Genetic Nomenclature for Mice'. This enables cross-reference with MGI/MGD and IMSR databases and IKMC and related project databases (EUCOMM, EUCOMMTools, IMPC, etc.). Appropriate, up-to-date curation of genetic data and strain nomenclature is also essential for efficient access and use of EMMA-DB resources by requesting scientists. A BioMart interface allows advanced searching including integrated querying with other resources e.g. Ensembl, EuroPhenome, OMIM. Other resources are able to display EMMA data by accessing our Distributed Annotation System server.