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IMGT News
IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database, announces:
IMGT Scientific Chart: A description of IMGT standardised rules to ensure the highest quality data (unique numbering, gene name nomenclature, FR-IMGT and CDR-IMGT regions,...)
IMGT Repertoire: IMGT expertised immunoglobulin and T cell receptor gene tables ("colliers de perles" representations, alignments and tables of alleles, protein displays,...)
a New IMGT/LIGM-DB interface and eight choices to see results (IMGT annotations, IMGT flat files, coding regions with protein translation, external references,...)
Also new:
the Mouse (Mus musculus) germline IGKV gene table
IMGT reference sequences in FASTA format, accessible from IMGT Repertoire and from IMGT/DNAPLOT search page, for downloading
IMGT Statistics:
> 27 000 Ig and TcR sequences of 81 species
> 26 000 sites connected since 1st of january 96
> 4 000 requests a week
Information by: Marie-Paule LeFranc
Resources and further information
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
http://www.cnrs.fr/index.html
Institute of Human Genetics (IGH) (French only)
http://www.igh.cnrs.fr/
Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory (LIGM)
http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104/textes/LIGM.html
International ImMunoGeneTics database (IMGT)
http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104/
Mirror at EBI, UK
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/
References:
Lefranc M.-P., Immunology Today, 18, 509 (1997)
Lefranc M.-P., Exp. Clin. Immunogenet., 15, 1-7 (1998)
Pallares N. et al., Exp. Clin. Immunogenet., 15, 8-18 (1998)
Lefranc M.-P. et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 26, 297-303 (1998)
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