Establishing nomenclature recommendations is an on-going project
The primary maize nomenclature recommendation was completed in 1996, with updates
for new data types in 2000, 2002, 2006 (transcript factors), and 2021 (genomic data).
With the advance of new research methods, the growing international maize
research community, and ever-increasing amounts of data, the MGC Board of
Directors have requested that the maize nomenclature be convened to update
the maize nomenclature recommendations, and to continue this effort as needs
change.
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Likely priorities
- Transposable Elements
- Pan-genes
- SNPs
- Insertions
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Revisit genomic nomenclature. Is the genomic nomenclature still working, can it be
improved with minimal disruption? E.g., will the 2-letter prefix continue to be
sufficient as clade-wide datasets become more common? What about haploid
assemblies?
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Revisit locus names; policies for non-conforming names; address researchers'
wish that names for the same locus identified in other species (esp. Arabidopsis)
can be used for maize.
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