In this era of whole genome sequencing, reliable genome annotations (identification of
functional regions) are the cornerstones for many subsequent analyses. Not only is careful …

The recent advancement of high-throughput genome sequencing technologies has resulted
in a considerable increase in demands for large-scale genome annotation. While annotation …

Today, the public international sequence databases contain more than nine billion
nucleotides and the flow of new sequences is increasing dramatically. For scientists, the …

Genome data have to be converted into knowledge to be useful to biologists. Many valuable
computational tools have already been developed to help annotation of plant genome …

Next-generation sequencing has triggered an explosion of available genomic and
transcriptomic resources in the plant sciences. Although genome and transcriptome …

Motivation: The annotation of the Arabidopsis thalianagenome remains a problem in terms
of time and quality. To improve the annotation process, we want to choose the most …

Background The ENCODE gene prediction workshop (EGASP) has been organized to
evaluate how well state-of-the-art automatic gene finding methods are able to reproduce the …

EuGene is an integrative gene finder applicable to both prokaryotic and eukaryotic
genomes. EuGene annotated its first genome in 1999. Starting from genomic DNA …

Large-scale genomic initiatives, such as the Earth BioGenome Project, require efficient
methods for eukaryotic genome annotation. Here we present an automatic gene finder …

Genome annotation is the process of identifying functional elements along the sequence of
a genome, thus giving meaning to it. It is necessary because the sequencing of DNA …