The HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) provides an approved gene name and symbol (short-form abbreviation) for each known human gene. All approved symbols are stored in the HGNC database, and each symbol is unique. This collection refers to records using the HGNC symbol.

Prefix

hgnc.symbol

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in HGNC gene symbol should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z-0-9_]+(\@)?$

Example Local Unique Identifier

DAPK1   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from HGNC gene symbol should match this regular expression:
^hgnc\.symbol:[A-Za-z-0-9_]+(\@)?$

Example CURIE

hgnc.symbol:DAPK1

Publications

• 2025 Data- and knowledge-derived functional landscape of human solute carriers
• 2024 Genomics 2 Proteins portal: a resource and discovery tool for linking genetic screening outputs to protein sequences and structures
• 2024 CBGDA: a manually curated resource for gene-disease associations based on genome-wide CRISPR

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

Provided By

collagenmutdb cosmic.gene depod pharmvar ygob

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier DAPK1 is used to demonstrate the providers available for HGNC gene symbol. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Semantic Farm are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.