The GeneCards database is developed and maintained in the Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Founded in 1997, the GeneCards project defined as its goal to integrate the fragments of information scattered over a variety of specialized databases into a coherent picture.
Academic institutions all over the world currently maintain GeneCards mirror sites.
We now introduce GeneCards Version 3, featuring a novel infrastructure, and a new speedy and sophisticated search engine. As a result of these improvements, the GeneCards user can now perform improved and better targeted queries, and evaluate search results in a more effective and user friendly manner. We also introduce GeneDecks....
What's in a GeneCard?
GeneCards Infrastructure and Database
In GeneCards Versions 2.xx, information is stored in flat files, one file per gene, all indexed to enable full-text searches. GeneCards V3 uses a persistent object/relational model, attempting to model all of the data entities and relationships in an efficient manner so that the diverse functions of displaying single genes, extracting various slices of attributes of sets of genes, and performing well on both full text and field-specific searches are taken into account. Commercial users can have access to the relational database in collaboration with LifeMap Sciences, Inc.Academic sites can receive a complete GeneCards mirror by signing the academic mirror site agreement.
Citing GeneCards in the Literature
If you want to cite the GeneCards encyclopedia in a journal article or on-line publication, please note the URL www.genecards.org, and cite the relevant publication(s)."
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