GENCODE

GENCODE is a scientific project in genome research and part of the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) scale-up project.

The aim of the GENCODE project 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. Annotation of the GENCODE gene set is carried out using a mix of manual annnotation, experimental analysis and computational biology methods. Since September 2009 GENCODE has been the human gene set used by the Ensembl project and each new GENCODE release corresponds to an Ensembl release.

The GENCODE project is an international effort headed by Tim Hubbard at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.