Entrez Gene is the NCBI's database for gene-specific information, focusing on completely sequenced genomes, those with an active research community to contribute gene-specific information, or those that are scheduled for intense sequence analysis.

Prefix

ncbigene

Preferred Prefix

NCBIGene

Alternative Prefixes

NCBIGene entrez nihgeneid EGID NCBI_GeneID GeneID entrez gene/locuslink EntrezGene

Keywords

dna gene genetics genome genomics

Links

Homepage

Contact

Terence D. Murphy   0000-0001-9311-9745

Identifier Space Owner

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in NCBI Gene should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

100010   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from NCBI Gene should match this regular expression:
^NCBIGene:\d+$

Example CURIE

NCBIGene:100010

Publications

• https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:25355515
• 2010 Entrez Gene: gene-centered information at NCBI
• 2005 Entrez Gene: gene-centered information at NCBI

References

GitHub Issue https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/issues/983

Contributors

• contributor Rhiannon Cameron   0000-0002-9578-0788   cmrn-rhi

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

Provided By

ctd.gene genewiki wikigenes

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 15 mappings to external registries for this resource with 9 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.uniprot.org/geneid/$1

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 100010 is used to demonstrate the providers available for NCBI Gene. 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.