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Many people are probably familiar with OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. It’s one of the oldest online collections of human genetic traits around. But many people may not be aware that OMIM inspired OMIA–Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals. The team from the University of Sydney that develops and curates OMIA collects information on animal [...]

In the realm of bioinformatics resources, few are more venerable than OMIM®, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man [well, originally not online, on index cards...]. For those who might be new to OMIM, it is a catalog of genes and their variations, and resulting phenotypes in human, with a more clinical perspective than some resources offer. [...]