RNAseq Genome Annotation Assessment Project

Following the successful format of the EGASP workshop in 2005, the RNAseq genome annotation assessment project was launched to assess the current progress of automatic gene building using RNAseq as its primary dataset.

In November 2009 a workshop was held to assess the status of computational methods to map human RNAseq data, assemble them into transcripts and quantify the abundance of that transcript in particular datasets. A second phase looking at 3 more tightly defined data sets was completed with a workshop in February 2010.

Transcript predictions were evaluated against the GENCODE annotation produced as part of the ENCODE project. Special attention/assessment was given to newly manually annotated chromosomes not previously publicly released before the workshop release.

Promising transcript predictions not covered by Gencode annotation were validated by experimental methods.

The findings will be published and made available here once they are finalized.

• Guidelines
• Data sets
• Participating groups
• Committee
• Preliminary results (for participants only)