James A. Kadin

TL;DR: Significant enhancements to MGD are described, including two new graphical user interfaces: the Multi Genome Viewer for exploring the genomes of multiple mouse strains and the Phenotype-Gene Expression matrix which was developed in collaboration with the Gene Expression Database (GXD) and allows researchers to compare gene expression and phenotype annotations for mouse genes.

TL;DR: Improvements in MGD described here include the association of gene trap data with mouse genes and a new batch query capability for customized data access and retrieval.

TL;DR: A new addition to MGD, the Human–Mouse: Disease Connection, allows users to explore gene–phenotype–disease relationships between human and mouse, and MGD has also updated search paradigms for phenotypic allele attributes, incorporated incidental mutation data, added a module for display and exploration of genes and microRNA interactions and adopted the JBrowse genome browser.

TL;DR: Improvements in MGD discussed here include the enhancement of phenotype resources, the re-development of the International Mouse Strain Resource, IMSR, the update of mammalian orthology datasets and the electronic publication of classic books in mouse genetics.

TL;DR: The IKMC materials considerably enhance functional gene annotation of the mammalian genome and will have a major impact on future biomedical research.