Requesting change to `genecards` namespace target URL pattern (and homepage + contact)

[builder-lifemap]

Hello,

I'm writing from the GeneCards team at the Weizmann Institute of Science, about our own namespace record. It has not been touched since it was registered in June 2019 and the URL pattern is now out of date.

Namespace: genecards (MIR:00000323, resource id 934, "GeneCards at Weizmann Institute")

1. urlPattern points at a retired endpoint

Current:

https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene={$id}

Requested:

https://www.genecards.org/card/{$id}

For example, genecards:BRCA1 should resolve to https://www.genecards.org/card/BRCA1

The old CGI path still issues a permanent redirect to the new form, so nothing is broken today — this removes a redirect hop for everyone resolving through you. Open Targets, for instance, links to GeneCards via identifiers.org/genecards:{symbol}, so their users currently take two hops.

2. resourceHomeUrl is http

Currently http://www.genecards.org/ — please update to https://www.genecards.org/.

3. No contact person is registered

The contactPerson endpoint for the namespace is empty, which means nobody on our side would be notified of changes or problems with the record. We would like to register a contact. Happy to provide a name and email — please let me know the preferred way to supply that (here, or privately if you'd rather not have it in a public issue).

Unchanged

The identifier itself is unchanged — it is the HGNC-approved gene symbol — so the existing pattern (^[A-Za-z-0-9_]+(\@)?$) and sampleId (ABL1) remain correct. GeneCards is actively maintained and freely available for academic use; v6 shipped this year.

Please let me know if you need anything from us to verify that we represent the resource.

Thanks for maintaining the registry.

[vijayvenkateshs]

Hi,

I have changed the url pattern and the resource home URL. Please check and let me know if everything is working as expected. Can you please send me the email id and name of the contact person you want it registered to identifiers-org@ebi.ac.uk and i will update it in our end.