Re: nema genetic nomenclature

Subject: Re: nema genetic nomenclature

From: Victor.R.Ambros@Dartmouth.EDU (Victor R. Ambros)

Date: 28 Oct 2002 09:23:55 EST

To: jorgensen@biology.utah.edu, ralf.sommer@tuebingen.mpg.de ("Ralf. J Sommer")

CC: bpgupta@its.caltech.edu (Bhagwati P Gupta), jonathan.hodgkin@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Jonathan Hodgkin), pws@caltech.edu (Paul Sternberg), tinoue@its.caltech.edu, ehaag@wam.umd.edu (Eric Haag), riddled@missouri.edu, dbaillie@gene.mbb.sfu.ca, felix@ijm.jussieu.fr (Marie-Anne Felix), Victor.R.Ambros@Dartmouth.EDU (Victor R. Ambros), bob-h@tc.umn.edu (CGC advisory), greenwald@cancercenter.ccc.columbia.edu, ikatsura@lab.nig.ac.jp, kjk1@cornell.edu, leon@eatworms.swmed.edu, sstrome@bio.indiana.edu, Thomas.Burglin@biosci.ki.se

Hi everyone,
	I also agree with Jonathan's amendments to Paul's proposal.We don't want to
have non-orthologous genes with the same name in different species, and
orthologs with different names. The reference allele scheme should work well to
help prevent that.


Victor