Genotify

This extension allows for in-text referencing of gene symbols.
What is Genotify?
Genotify is a Chrome extension that alleviates the annoyance of googling gene symbols by providing convenient, in-text referencing. It pulls basic information from the UniProtKB database and displays it in a small blurb above the highlighted gene symbol.

Extension stats

By: Mo Alawi
Users: 291 ▼ -2
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2022-03-01)
Creation date: 2020-03-24
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
Size: 577.54K

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Extension summary

Googling a gene every few minutes just to get a basic summary gets old, doesn't it?

This extension alleviates that annoyance by allowing for convenient, in-text referencing of gene symbols. All you have to do is highlight a human gene symbol. The extension will then check Gencode 19 human gene annotations to determine the UniProt ID for the gene. Basic information such as the full gene name and protein function are pulled from the UniProtKB database and displayed in a small blurb above the highlighted gene symbol within about a second.

Source: https://github.com/melalawi/Genotify

E-mail Jared ([email protected]) or Mo ([email protected]) with comments, concerns, questions, or suggestions.

Thanks to UniProt and Gencode for existing:

The UniProt Consortium UniProt: a hub for protein information Nucleic Acids Res. 43: D204-D212 (2015).

GENCODE: the reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project. Harrow J et al. Genome research 2012;22;9;1760-74 PUBMED: 22955987; PMC: 3431492; DOI: 10.1101/gr.135350.111

User reviews

Very good tool!
by A Google user, 2016-05-18

Works fine - now you don't need to google names if you don't remember them.
by kartochitatel, 2015-12-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Genotify requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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