nGASP - the nematode genome annotation assessment project

Coghlan, A., Fiedler, T. J., McKay, S. J., Flicek, P., Harris, T. W., Blasiar, D., Stein, L. D. (2008) nGASP - the nematode genome annotation assessment project. Bmc Bioinformatics, 9 (1). p. 549.

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URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19099578
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-549

Abstract

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: While the C. elegans genome is extensively annotated, relatively little information is available for other Caenorhabditis species. The nematode genome annotation assessment project (nGASP) was launched to objectively assess the accuracy of protein-coding gene prediction software in C. elegans, and to apply this knowledge to the annotation of the genomes of four additional Caenorhabditis species and other nematodes. Seventeen groups worldwide participated in nGASP, and submitted 47 prediction sets across 10 Mb of the C. elegans genome. Predictions were compared to reference gene sets consisting of confirmed or manually curated gene models from WormBase. RESULTS: The most accurate gene-finders were 'combiner' algorithms, which made use of transcript- and protein-alignments and multi-genome alignments, as well as gene predictions from other gene-finders. Gene-finders that used alignments of ESTs, mRNAs and proteins came in second. There was a tie for third place between gene-finders that used multi-genome alignments and ab initio gene-finders. The median gene level sensitivity of combiners was 78% and their specificity was 42%, which is nearly the same accuracy reported for combiners in the human genome. C. elegans genes with exons of unusual hexamer content, as well as those with unusually many exons, short exons, long introns, a weak translation start signal, weak splice sites, or poorly conserved orthologs posed the greatest difficulty for gene-finders. CONCLUSION: This experiment establishes a baseline of gene prediction accuracy in Caenorhabditis genomes, and has guided the choice of gene-finders for the annotation of newly sequenced genomes of Caenorhabditis and other nematode species. We have created new gene sets for C. briggsae, C. remanei, C. brenneri, C. japonica, and Brugia malayi using some of the best-performing gene-finders.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: organism description > animal > C elegans
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > annotation > gene expression profiling annotation
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > computers > computer software
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Communities: CSHL labs > Stein lab
Depositing User: Tom Adams
Date: 2008
Date Deposited: 25 Aug 2011 18:21
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2018 20:35
PMCID: PMC2651883
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/7712

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