Request: translator for HGNC

iagogv

Zotero connector offers to save an HGNC URL as a web page, for example https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:3796.

However, it should be cited as a database:https://www.genenames.org/help/faq/#!/#tocAnchor-1-1-7

HGNC Database, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), Department of Haematology, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, United Kingdom www.genenames.org.

AbeJellinek

We wouldn’t normally write a translator that just produces a generic citation for the website as a whole. Is there guidance on how to cite individual entries?

adamsmith

I'd generally ignore recommended citations except as a reference for official names. E.g., it'd be entirely out of place to cite a post code in most citation styles.

iagogv

@AbeJellinek

Is there guidance on how to cite individual entries?

I know what I linked.

We wouldn’t normally write a translator that just produces a generic citation for the website as a whole

Ok, but it would be better to save a generic but right item than just a webpage without any relevant data.

AbeJellinek

What you linked isn’t what we’d need to develop a translator for this site. I asked if you had any other resources. If you don’t, say you don’t. Being rude and demanding won’t get you anywhere.

iagogv

Excuse, it was not my intention to be rude. I answered ok, just commenting (not demanding) about the functionality.