IPD-MHC

Guidelines for submission to IPD-MHC BoLA

Bovine sequences can be submitted to the IPD-MHC Database in order to receive an official name. However, there are required conditions for the acceptance of new sequences for official names. Please read the following conditions carefully before submitting sequences.

• An accession number in a databank must have been obtained. Sequences may be submitted to these databases online at the following addresses: EMBL, GenBank,DDBJ.
• Full length sequences are preferable though not essential; the minimum requirements are exons 2 and 3 for an MHC class I sequence and exon 2 for an MHC class II sequence.

References

• Maccari G, Robinson J, Ballingall K, Guethlein LA, Grimholt U, Kaufman J, Ho CS, De Groot NG, Flicek P, Bontrop RE, Hammond JA and Marsh SGE IPD-MHC 2.0: an improved inter-species database for the study of the major histocompatibility complex. Nucleic Acids Res. (2017), 45: D860–D864