The new DOE-NIH award supports operational expenses, further development, and expansion. Research and development of new and more useful database operations. User services, including manuals and staff assistance for scientists. Some 25 people work full-time on GDB at Hopkins, in addition to editors who review and standardize material to be entered in the information base. Also online are known mouse genes that are homologous to human genes in function or DNA sequence.
Users can define searches for any category and move from one data type to another.
Additional cross references to related databases include relevant GenBank and American Type Culture Collection numbers.