GENCODE
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GENCODE is a scientific project in genome research and part of the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) scale-up project.
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Description | Encyclopædia of genes and gene variants |
Data types captured | All gene features in Human & mouse genome |
Contact | |
Research center | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
Authors | Harrow J, et al [1] |
Primary citation | PMID 22955987 |
Release date | September 2012 (September 2012) |
Access | |
Website | Website Gencode |
Tools | |
Web | UCSC Genome Browser: http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/encode/ |
Miscellaneous | |
License | Open Access |
Data release frequency | Human - Quarterly Mouse - Half yearly |
Version | Human - Release 37 (February 2021) Mouse - Release M26 (February 2021) |
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The GENCODE consortium was initially formed as part of the pilot phase of the ENCODE project to identify and map all protein-coding genes within the ENCODE regions (approx. 1% of Human genome).[2] Given the initial success of the project, GENCODE now aims to build an “Encyclopedia of genes and genes variants”.[2]
The result will be a set of annotations including all protein-coding loci with alternatively transcribed variants,[3] non-coding loci[4] with transcript evidence, and pseudogenes.[5]