Publications to cite in your manuscripts

Please use the following citation formats when referring to resources available from the Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site in your publications.

MGD:

Blake JA, Baldarelli R, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, Smith CL, Bult CJ; Mouse Genome Database Group. 2021. Mouse Genome Database (MGD): Knowledgebase for mouse-human comparative biology. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D981-D987.

GXD:

Baldarelli RM, Smith CM, Finger JH, Hayamizu TF, McCright IJ, Xu J, Shaw DR, Beal JS, Blodgett O, Campbell J, Corbani LE, Frost PJ, Giannatto SC, Miers DB, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, Ringwald M. 2021. The mouse Gene Expression Database (GXD): 2021 update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D924-D931.

MMHCdb (formerly MTB):

Krupke DM, Begley DA, Sundberg JP, Richardson JE, Neuhauser SB, Bult CJ. The Mouse Tumor Biology Database: A Comprehensive Resource for Mouse Models of Human Cancer. Cancer Res. 2017 Nov 1;77(21):e67-e70.

See Mouse Genome Informatics Publications for an expanded list of resources available at the Mouse Genome Informatics website.

To cite specific database projects, use a format similar to that shown in the following examples:

Mouse Genome Database (MGD) at the Mouse Genome Informatics website, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieve data cited].

Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieve data cited.]

Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb), Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieved data cited].

MouseMine, Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.mousemine.org/). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieved data cited].

To cite our ontologies:

For the Mammalian Phenotype Ontology please cite: Smith CL, Eppig JT. The mammalian phenotype ontology: enabling robust annotation and comparative analysis. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2009 Nov-Dec;1(3):390-399. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.44. PubMed PMID: 20052305; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2801442.

For the Mouse Adult Anatomy Ontology please cite: Hayamizu TF, Mangan M, Corradi JP, Kadin JA, Ringwald M. The Adult Mouse Anatomical Dictionary: a tool for annotating and integrating data. Genome Biol. 2005;6(3):R29. Epub 2005 Feb 15. PubMed PMID: 15774030; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC1088948.

For the Mouse Anatomy and Development Ontology please cite: Hayamizu TF, Baldock RA, Ringwald M. 2015. Mouse anatomy ontologies: enhancements and tools for exploring and integrating biomedical data. Mamm Genome. 2015 Oct;26(9-10):422-30.

To cite a specific data area or display, use a format similar to that shown in the following examples:

Some phenotype data for this paper were retrieved from the Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). (June, 2013 [i.e., the date you retrieved the data cited]).

Davisson MT, Cook SA, Eicher EM. The first spontaneous mutation in the mouse Herc2 gene, MGI Direct Data Submission to Mouse Genome Database (MGD), MGI:1349786,  (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). (1999).