Talk:Nuclear receptor co-repressor 2

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Nobody calls it NCOR2. Whoever changed this page clearly has little connection with the field of nuclear receptor coregulators. Generic annotation is the curse of modern biology
 * This page's name was not changed to but rather created with the NCOR2 name. At the same time, a redirect page from SMRT to NCOR2 was created and a definition of what SMRT stands for was included in the article since I was aware that the SMRT acronym is frequently used in the nuclear receptor literature.  The main reason that the generic annotation was for consistency with other web pages (see for example transcription coregulator) and to avoid edit wars between competing research groups "who would sooner share toothbrushes than protein names" ;-)  Cheers.  Boghog2 15:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Opps. I now see that I am guilty as charged since the transcription coregulator article initially mentioned SMRT but not NCOR2 ;-)  Boghog2 15:27, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Great idea - take a look at NURSA (www.nursa.org)- they have already done it. They use a menu driven approach to reconcile all names in common usage for a given nuclear receptor, coregulator and ligand. Think of all the names you can for pCIP/SRC-3 and they all point to the same page. FWIW, I was at the 1996 Keystone when Keith Yamamoto made the comment you paraphrased. Ironically enough, he is the only person I know of that refers to nuclear receptors as intracellular receptors (IRs). So much for setting an example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.249.96.252 (talk • contribs) 20:07, 3 August 2007 .252 (UTC)