MGD is a core resource within the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) consortium (http://www.informatics.jax.org). Other database resources that are coordinated within the MGI consortium include the Gene Expression Database (GXD) (3), the Mouse Tumor Biology Database (MTB) (4), the Gene Ontology project (GO) (5), MouseMine (6), the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR) (7) and the CrePortal database of recombinase expressing mice (8). Data included in all resources hosted at the MGI website are obtained through a combination of expert curation of the biomedical literature and automated or semi-automatic processing of data sets downloaded from more than fifty other data resources. A summary of the current content of MGD is summarized in Table 2.
