This HPS database (HPSD; http://liweilab.genetics.ac.cn/HPSD/) provides integrated, annotatory, and curative data that is distributed in a variety of public databases or predicted by bioinformatics servers for the recently cloned human and mouse HPS genes, as well as for the genes responsible for HPSrelated syndromes, such as ChediakHigashi Syndrome (CHS), Griscelli syndrome (GS), oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), Usher syndrome type 1B (USH1B), and ocular albinism (OA).