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Whereas many data exist, they are scattered in non specialized resources with different nomenclatures (eg. flat files) and are difficult to extract.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Description<\/jats:title><jats:p>IMGT\/GeneInfo is an online information system that provides, through a user-friendly interface, exhaustive information resulting from the complex mechanisms of T cell receptor V-J and V-D-J recombinations. T cells comprise two populations which express the \u03b1\u03b2 and \u03b3\u03b4 TR, respectively. The first version of the system dealt with the<jats:italic>Homo sapiens<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>Mus musculus<\/jats:italic>TRA and TRB loci whose gene rearrangements allow the synthesis of the \u03b1\u03b2 TR chains. In this paper, we present the second version of IMGT\/GeneInfo where we complete the database for the<jats:italic>Homo sapiens<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>Mus musculus<\/jats:italic>TRG and TRD loci along with the introduction of a quality control procedure for existing and new data. We also include new functionalities to the four loci analysis, giving, to date, a very informative tool which allows to work on V(D)J genes of all TR loci in both human and mouse species. IMGT\/GeneInfo provides more than 59,000 rearrangement combinations with a full gene description which is freely available at<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"http:\/\/imgt.cines.fr\/GeneInfo\" ext-link-type=\"uri\">http:\/\/imgt.cines.fr\/GeneInfo<\/jats:ext-link>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>IMGT\/GeneInfo allows all TR information sequences to be in the same spot, and are now available within two computer-mouse clicks. 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