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General Help
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Mouse Genome Informatics offers on-line help and staffs a help desk to answer your questions and comments. Please feel free to
Contact User Support
for any of the following:
- You can't find the data you're looking for
- You've found an error on one of our web pages
- You have a paper you'd like us to curate
- You need us to create a special report
- You have data you'd like to submit
- You have a complaint about or a suggestion for our website
- You would like to host an MGI workshop at your institution (details)
You can reach us by email, by submitting our
Contact User Support form, or at (207) 288-6445.
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Interpreting Annotations
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MGI-Mouse Gene Expression Database (GXD): Our Data Policies - Gene Expression Database (GXD): Our Data Policies
The Gene Expression Database (GXD) collects and integrates the gene
expression information in MGI.
- GXD's primary emphasis is on endogenous gene expression during
mouse development.
- Data are acquired from the literature by our curatorial staff
and via direct submission from large-scale data providers, as well
as individual labs. New expression data are made available on a
daily basis.
- GXD currently collects detailed expression data from the
following assay types: RNA in situ hybridization; Immunohistochemistry;
in situ reporter (knock in); RT-PCR; Northern and Western blots;
and RNase and Nuclease S1 protection assays
- It is our curatorial policy to annotate expression patterns
based solely on what is written in the manuscript; we do not
interpret images presented within papers. We are happy to accept
more detailed descriptions of expression patterns from authors
and will update database entries accordingly.
- GXD focuses on endogenous gene expression data in wild-type
and mutant mice, including reporter data from knock-in experiments.
Currently GXD does not include expression data from other types of
transgenic animals, conditional knock-outs, chimeras, animals
subjected to treatments, or from cultured material.
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Analysis Tools