@article{The MGC Project Team01122009,
author = {The MGC Project Team and Temple, Gary and Gerhard, Daniela S. and Rasooly, Rebekah and Feingold, Elise A. and Good, Peter J. and Robinson, Cristen and Mandich, Allison and Derge, Jeffrey G. and Lewis, Jeanne and Shoaf, Debonny and Collins, Francis S. and Jang, Wonhee and Wagner, Lukas and Shenmen, Carolyn M. and Misquitta, Leonie and Schaefer, Carl F. and Buetow, Kenneth H. and Bonner, Tom I. and Yankie, Linda and Ward, Ming and Phan, Lon and Astashyn, Alex and Brown, Garth and Farrell, Catherine and Hart, Jennifer and Landrum, Melissa and Maidak, Bonnie L. and Murphy, Michael and Murphy, Terence and Rajput, Bhanu and Riddick, Lillian and Webb, David and Weber, Janet and Wu, Wendy and Pruitt, Kim D. and Maglott, Donna and Siepel, Adam and Brejova, Brona and Diekhans, Mark and Harte, Rachel and Baertsch, Robert and Kent, Jim and Haussler, David and Brent, Michael and Langton, Laura and Comstock, Charles L.G. and Stevens, Michael and Wei, Chaochun and van Baren, Marijke J. and Salehi-Ashtiani, Kourosh and Murray, Ryan R. and Ghamsari, Lila and Mello, Elizabeth and Lin, Chenwei and Pennacchio, Christa and Schreiber, Kirsten and Shapiro, Nicole and Marsh, Amber and Pardes, Elizabeth and Moore, Troy and Lebeau, Anita and Muratet, Mike and Simmons, Blake and Kloske, David and Sieja, Stephanie and Hudson, James and Sethupathy, Praveen and Brownstein, Michael and Bhat, Narayan and Lazar, Joseph and Jacob, Howard and Gruber, Chris E. and Smith, Mark R. and McPherson, John and Garcia, Angela M. and Gunaratne, Preethi H. and Wu, Jiaqian and Muzny, Donna and Gibbs, Richard A. and Young, Alice C. and Bouffard, Gerard G. and Blakesley, Robert W. and Mullikin, Jim and Green, Eric D. and Dickson, Mark C. and Rodriguez, Alex C. and Grimwood, Jane and Schmutz, Jeremy and Myers, Richard M. and Hirst, Martin and Zeng, Thomas and Tse, Kane and Moksa, Michelle and Deng, Merinda and Ma, Kevin and Mah, Diana and Pang, Johnson and Taylor, Greg and Chuah, Eric and Deng, Athena and Fichter, Keith and Go, Anne and Lee, Stephanie and Wang, Jing and Griffith, Malachi and Morin, Ryan and Moore, Richard A. and Mayo, Michael and Munro, Sarah and Wagner, Susan and Jones, Steven J.M. and Holt, Robert A. and Marra, Marco A. and Lu, Sun and Yang, Shuwei and Hartigan, James and Graf, Marcus and Wagner, Ralf and Letovksy, Stanley and Pulido, Jacqueline C. and Robison, Keith and Esposito, Dominic and Hartley, James and Wall, Vanessa E. and Hopkins, Ralph F. and Ohara, Osamu and Wiemann, Stefan}, 
title = {The completion of the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)},
volume = {19}, 
number = {12}, 
pages = {2324-2333}, 
year = {2009}, 
doi = {10.1101/gr.095976.109}, 
abstract ={Since its start, the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) has sought to provide at least one full-protein-coding sequence cDNA clone for every human and mouse gene with a RefSeq transcript, and at least 6200 rat genes. The MGC cloning effort initially relied on random expressed sequence tag screening of cDNA libraries. Here, we summarize our recent progress using directed RT-PCR cloning and DNA synthesis. The MGC now contains clones with the entire protein-coding sequence for 92% of human and 89% of mouse genes with curated RefSeq (NM-accession) transcripts, and for 97% of human and 96% of mouse genes with curated RefSeq transcripts that have one or more PubMed publications, in addition to clones for more than 6300 rat genes. These high-quality MGC clones and their sequences are accessible without restriction to researchers worldwide.}, 
URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/12/2324.abstract}, 
eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/12/2324.full.pdf+html}, 
journal = {Genome Research} 
}