Plant and Animal Genome XXI Conference

January 11 - 16, 2013

Computational Gene Discovery

Summary: THE TIDE OF SEQUENCE DATA. Majority of genomes sequenced since the start of genomic era are short prokaryotic genomes. Among sequenced eukaryotes fungal genomes (with length below 100MB)constitute the largest group. In 2010 the number of completely sequenced genomes of eukaryotes longer than 100MB just exceeded 20; now about 100 "large" (longer than 500MB) eukaryotic genomes are finished or close to completion. THE WORKSHOP MISSION. A task of annotation of protein-coding and RNA genes in large eukaryotic genomes is a bottleneck in translation of sequence information into biological knowledge. The workshop focus is on latest advances in computational gene prediction. Speakers represent leading research groups working on development of state-of-the-art algorithms of genome annotation integrating different types of information (genomic DNA, EST, cDNA, RNA-seq, protein sequences).