Dear Rosaceae researchers,

Gene Naming Guideline has been put together by Rosaceae Gene Name Standardization Subcommittee of RosEXEC/RosIGI and is available in GDR. This information is found on the main menu at 'Help' ->'Gene Naming Guideline'. http://www.rosaceae.org/nomenclature/gene

We recommend authors to refer to the list of gene class symbols in Rosaceae and gene naming guidelines and submit the gene/gene class data. As in the guideline, the data can be submitted in the template available from the page below. http://www.rosaceae.org/data/submission

*If you are working on Rosaceae genes, we would like to ask you to submit your gene data using the guideline and give us any feedback. If you know of any researchers who are actively working on genes, please forward this email.*

The gene data includes gene name, gene symbol, species, gene model ID, evidence code, etc.

After getting enough feedback from the community researchers, we will work with editors of journals to check whether the authors are following the nomenclature guidelines and make sure that novel gene names have been submitted to NCBI and/or GDR before accepting a paper as publishable. Unlike, NCBI, GDR will accept genes that do not come from single molecule sequencing with appropriate evidence code.

Sincerely,

GDR team

------------------------------------------ Sook Jung, PhD Assistant Research Professor of Bioinformatics Dept of Horticulture Washington State University 45 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6414 Email: sook_jung@wsu.edu ------------------------------------------- Follow GDR on Twitter! https://twitter.com/GDR_news