New MGI Web Interface

JAX® NOTES Issue 510, Summer 2008

The Mouse Genome Informatics website (MGI) has been recently redesigned to enhance navigation. Most web pages offer a Quick Search field that searches mouse gene and marker symbols, names, and many types of accession IDs. In addition to supporting searches by MGI IDs, the website also supports searches by nucleotide, protein, SNP, or gene trap sequence IDs, and identifiers from PubMed (PMID), Ensembl, EntrezGene, OMIM, and other resources.

For more sophisticated searches, use the MGI search forms. These support multiple search parameters and take advantage of the extensive data integration of MGI. A horizontal navigation bar found near the top of MGI web pages now provides drop‑down access to most search forms and MGI resources. With these search forms, you can simultaneously search molecular function, genome location, expression, phenotypes, and disease.

Also new to this release are content pages that organize the help documents and resources associated with topical sections of MGI. There are content pages for the following:

  • Genes, Genome Features & Maps
  • Phenotypes, Alleles & Disease Models
  • The Gene Expression Database (GXD)
  • Functional Annotation using the Gene Ontology (GO)
  • Biochemical Pathways (MouseCyc)
  • Strains, SNPs & Polymorphisms
  • Mammalian Orthology
  • Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)

These sections are featured prominently on the MGI Home Page and can be accessed easily by tabs on other MGI web pages.

Please send questions and comments to MGI User Support: mgi-help@informatics.jax.org.