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Semantic web downloads
- What is a Web Ontology Language (OWL)?
- The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. OWL is a computational logic-based language such that knowledge expressed in OWL can be exploited by computer programs, e.g., to verify the consistency of that knowledge or to make implicit knowledge explicit. OWL documents, known as ontologies, can be published in the World Wide Web and may refer to or be referred from other OWL ontologies.
- Where can I find an OWL file for the HGNC?
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Our friends at SciBite have created an OWL file for us. You can find the file at https://storage.googleapis.com/public-download-files/hgnc/owl/owl/hgnc.owl.
This HGNC OWL file contains all genes in HGNC organised in a shallow hierarchy, classified by their locus type and gene group. The ontology contains approved gene symbol, approved gene name, previous names and symbols and mappings to external databases. Please contact help@scibite.com if you have any questions.
- How do I search/download HGNC data using the semantic web?
- You need to either use the URL of our hgnc.owl or download the file, and use the file or URL in a tool such as Stanford University's Protégé. To learn how to use Protégé check out their short training course.
Complete dataset download links
- Complete HGNC approved dataset
- HGNC genes within groups dataset
- Withdrawn symbol reports
- Locus specific database links
- Gene group database table files (i.e full group hierarchy)
Archived HGNC datasets
The HGNC archive the complete HGNC dataset and withdrawn files (both tab separated and JSON formats) each month and each quarter. View our HGNC data archive help page for more information about the files and the archive itself.
Help & information
A comprehensive list of all the columns contained within the download files, can be found in the Statistics & downloads help page.
- Click on the icon to download the fields as a tab delimited text file. Columns the contain multiple values will be double quoted and the values within delimited by a pipe (i.e |).
- Click on the icon to download as a json file.
- Click on the icon to use the Custom Downloads page to select which fields are in the download
- Fields found within the and files can be found within the Statistics & downloads help page.
Data release policy
No restrictions are imposed on access to, or use of, the data provided by the HGNC, which are provided to enhance knowledge and encourage progress in the scientific community. The HGNC provides these data in good faith, but make no warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for any purpose for which they are used.