Donna Maglott

TL;DR: The results of an international collaboration to produce a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome are reported and an initial comparative analysis of the Mouse and human genomes is presented, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the two sequences.

TL;DR: The National Center for Biotechnology Information Reference Sequence (RefSeq) database provides a non-redundant collection of sequences representing genomic data, transcripts and proteins that pragmatically includes sequence data that are currently publicly available in the archival databases.

TL;DR: The approach to utilizing available RNA-Seq and other data types in the authors' manual curation process for vertebrate, plant, and other species is summarized, and a new direction for prokaryotic genomes and protein name management is described.

TL;DR: ClinVar continues to make improvements to its search and retrieval functions.

TL;DR: To facilitate evaluation of the medical importance of each variant, ClinVar aggregates submissions with the same variation/phenotype combination, adds value from other NCBI databases, assigns a distinct accession of the format RCV000000000.0 and reports if there are conflicting clinical interpretations.