GENCODE
| Content | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Primary citation | PMID 22955987 |
| Release date | 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) |
GENCODE is a scientific project in genome research and part of the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) scale-up project.
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). Given the initial success of the project, GENCODE now aims to build an “Encyclopedia of genes and genes variants”.
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.