At long last, we've put together guidelines for naming genes and proteins at the i5k Workspace: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/i5k-workspace-gene-and-protein-naming-guidelines. We invite all of our users, new and seasoned, to review these guidelines. If you have comments, suggestions, critiques, please let us know - we've opened up a comments form at the bottom of the document, or you are welcome to email us with feedback.