Background The maturing field of genomics is rapidly increasing the number of sequenced
genomes and producing more information from those previously sequenced. Much of this …

Motivation A recurring challenge in interpreting genomic data is the assessment of results in
the context of existing reference databases. With the increasing number of command line …

Abstract The Ensembl (http://www. ensembl. org/) project provides a comprehensive and
integrated source of annotation of large genome sequences. Over the last year the number …

Abstract The Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) project (http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih.
gov/CCDS/) is a collaborative effort to maintain a dataset of protein-coding regions that are …

Abstract The Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) project provides a dataset of protein-
coding regions that are identically annotated on the human and mouse reference genome …

GENCODE produces high quality gene and transcript annotation for the human and mouse
genomes. All GENCODE annotation is supported by experimental data and serves as a …

Abstract The Ensembl (http://www. ensembl. org/) database project provides a bioinformatics
framework to organise biology around the sequences of large genomes. It is a …

The Ensembl pipeline is an extension to the Ensembl system which allows automated
annotation of genomic sequence. The software comprises two parts. First, there is a set of …

Abstract The Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) is a consortium of the major model
organism databases and the Gene Ontology that is guided by the vision of facilitating …

Abstract The Ensembl project (http://www. ensembl. org) is a comprehensive genome
information system featuring an integrated set of genome annotation, databases and other …