The HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) provides an approved gene name and symbol (short-form abbreviation) for each known human gene. All approved symbols are stored in the HGNC database, and each symbol is unique. HGNC identifiers refer to records in the HGNC symbol database.

Prefix

hgnc

Keywords

classification gene gene name life science ncrna ontology organism-specific databases protein pseudogene

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage OBO OWL OBO JSON

Publications

2023 Automated assembly of molecular mechanisms at scale from text mining and curated databases

2021 Genenames.org: the HGNC and VGNC resources in 2021

2019 Genenames.org: the HGNC and VGNC resources in 2019

1979 International system for human gene nomenclature (1979) ISGN (1979)

2017 From word models to executable models of signaling networks using automated assembly

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee should match this regular expression:
^\d{1,5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

16793   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee should match this regular expression:
^hgnc:\d{1,5}$

Example CURIE

hgnc:16793

Contact

Elspeth Bruford   0000-0002-8380-5247

Susan Tweedie   0000-0003-1818-8243   sartweedie

Group Contact

Mailing List

Identifier Space Owner

European Bioinformatics Institute

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (3)

FHIR External Terminologies Global Biodata Coalition - Global Core Biodata Resources Synapse.org external links

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 17 mappings to external registries with 7 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 16793 is used to demonstrate the providers available for HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.