1. Common Gene Pages Scott Cain GMOD Coordinator Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2. What is a common gene page A simple (probably alternate) view of your typical gene page that conforms to a set standard (ie, common)‏

3. Why do it? Who is the target? Standards are good! Computational biologists/bioinformatitians (to compute on large sets)‏ Students Curators from other organisms Any downside? Not that I can think of; it should be easy.

4. What are expected terms? Names, symbols/IDs, synonyms Map locations Gene ontology Database cross-refs, External links (accession, pdb, refseq, genbank, EC number)‏ Literature references Summary Text Species UniProt XML?

5. Example implmentation Daphnia-base:  http://wfleabase.org/lucegene/lookup?id=NCBI_ GNO_292134

6. So, what now The real trick is to get two or more orgs to do this, then it may take off. WormBase? Chado? (which could potentially get lots of orgs)‏