IMMUNOGENETICS IMGT DATABASE
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Professor Marie-Paule LEFRANC
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGenetique Moleculaire, LIGM
UMR CNRS 9942, Institut de Genetique Moleculaire
BP 5051, 1919 route de Mende, 34033 MONTPELLIER Cedex 1
FRANCE
Telephone: (33) 67 61 36 34
FAX : (33) 67 04 02 31/67 04 02 45
e-mail : lefranc at ligm.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr
INTRODUCTION
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The ImMunoGeneTics database, IMGT, is an integrated specialised database
containing nucleotide sequence information of genes important in the function
of the immune system. It collects and annotates sequences belonging to the
immunoglobulin superfamily which are involved in immune recognition, these are
the B cell antigen receptor (Immunoglobulin or Ig), the T cell antigen receptor
(TCR) (LIGM-database) and the class I and class II molecules of the
Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) system (HLA-database).
IMGT/LIGM DATABASE
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An integrated immumogenetics database (IMGT/LIGM) specialising in Ig and TcR is
under development through collaboration between LIGM, IFG and EMBL oustation
EBI. This database consists of the Ig and TcR sequence entries.
Collaborators:
Release 3 (March 1996) contains 5109 fully annotated sequence entries.
LIGM Montpellier :Marie-Paule Lefranc (coordinator)
Veronique Giudicelli,Denys Chaume
EMBL-EBI :Ansar Malik
IFG :Werner Mueller
MRC :Ian Tomlinson
ACCESS/DATA DISTRIBUTION
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WWW server: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/
FTP server: ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/imgt
E_MAIL server: email netserv at ebi.ac.uk -- send "help IMGT" in the mail body.
This database is available on CD-ROM as an acompanying database
to the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database at nominal cost.
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Ansar Malik Ph.D | Email:Malik at ebi.ac.uk
EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute | URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk
Hinxton Hall, Hinxton | Tel: +44 (1223) 494417
Cambridge CB10 1RQ, UK | Fax: +44 (1223) 494968
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