Satellite Prediction Experiment
Related to a ISMB'99 Tutorial a community-wide prediction and annotation
experiment will be made. Please note the following announcement:
Dear colleagues,
On the eve of complete sequencing of the human and fly genome, the Drosophila
Genome center is making an effort to review and evaluate existing tools for
the annotation of long eukaryotic genomic sequences through a community wide
experiment.
The goal of this experiment is to obtain an in-depth and objective assessment
of the current state of the art in gene and functional site predictions in
genomic DNA. To this end, participants will predict as much as possible about
a sample Drosophila genomic region that has been studied intensively in the
past. In addition to the genomic sequence of 2.9 Mbases all participants
will be provided with additional gene feature datasets collected by the
Drosophila genome center that can be used when making predictions or training
computational methods. The experiment will be a blind test with no winners
or losers.
Predictions can be submitted for the genomic sequence through email using
a common file format (GFF). Participation in the experiment is open to everybody
and predictions can be computational, biological or a combined consensus
approach. The organizers ask for a detailed description of the method used.
Predictions should be submitted by June 30, 1999, to be evaluated by the
organizers. Results of the experiment will be made available through a web
site from the Drosophila Genome center and evaluation will be presented at
the Tutorial #3 of the ISMB
'99 conference in Heidelberg.
EVERY participant will be invited for a DINNER PARTY on August 6, 1999, at
the ISMB conference after the tutorial.
Please access the data sequence and all necessary information from the experiment
Web page at
http://www-hgc.lbl.gov/homes/reese/genome-annotation/
Check this page regularly for updates.
We hope a lot of people will participate. For further information feel free
to contact us by sending email to compfly@bdgp.lbl.gov or directly to Martin
Reese (mgreese@lbl.gov). Feel free to distribute this email to colleagues
who might be interested.
Best regards,
Martin Reese, Nomi Harris, George Hartzell, Uwe Ohler and Suzanna Lewis