https://www.dennogumi.org/tags/database/ Recent content in Database on dennogumi.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us &copy; 2026 Einar under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Some images are AI-generated. Header design by [Melissa Adkins](https://melissaadkins.com) with [assets from Freepik](https://freepik.com). Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:15:20 +0000 https://www.dennogumi.org/2008/11/the-plague-of-cross-database-annotations/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:15:20 +0000 https://www.dennogumi.org/2008/11/the-plague-of-cross-database-annotations/ <p>Recently I had to annotate a large (10,000+) number of genes identified by Entrez Gene IDs. My goal was to avoid &ldquo;annotation files&rdquo; (basically CSV files) that a part of wet lab group likes, because I wanted to stay up-to-date without having to remember to update them. So the obvious solution was to use a service available on the web, and in an automated way. For reference, I just tried to attach gene symbol, gene name, chromosome and cytoband. I tried many services:</p>