Consider gene resource to link out to

[AnneCarpenter]

I was showing a colleague who is working on a couple of diseases associated with the gene DLG4. I noticed that the NCBI link we use doesn't list the diseases associated with a gene, which is an odd omission:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/1742

By contrast, GeneCards does (but is only available for use by academics):
https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=DLG4

So I wonder if we could chat with people who think about these databases all the time to find one that is completely openly available but also has disease info.

[afermg]

(I presume this is about the jump_rr interfaces). To implement such a feature the main challenge is to ensure that the gene ID we have corresponds to the genecards id. Depending of how much of a priority this is I may be able to allocate some time to find an accurate translator and add that external resource to our datasettes.

[AnneCarpenter]

Not a priority - and the first step would be to decide which source to link to; GeneCards may not be the best choice anyway.

[afermg]

So I wonder if we could chat with people who think about these databases all the time to find one that is completely openly available but also has disease info.

Seems like a good time to tackle this. Will get onto it.

[afermg]

These are the resources that seem worth adding:

• OMIM: Literature-based summaries with references, uses its own mapping, but we were provided a mapper
• Gene cards: Good general summary, indexed by gene name
• Ensembl: Splice variants, phenotypes, comparative genomics. Uses its own index.
• UCSC Genome Browser: Deep-dive to multiple omics. Indexed by its own internal numbers. Need to find a way to map.