Information about the Gencode project and its data can be found at:
GENCODE
In 2007 the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute was awarded $8.5M (£4.2M) by the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to fund the GENCODE sub-project, as part of a programme to expand the ENCylcopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.
The aim of GENCODE is to annotate all evidence-based gene features in the entire human genome at a high accuracy. The result will be a set of annotations including all protein-coding loci with alternatively transcribed variants, non-coding loci with transcript evidence and pseudogenes. The process to create this annotation involves manual curation, different computational analysis and targeted experimental approaches. Putative loci can be verified by wet-lab experiments and computational predictions are analysed manually.
The international team working in the GENCODE project is headed by Dr Tim Hubbard at the Sanger Institute and involves collaborators from Switzerland, Spain and USA.
[Genome Research Limited]
