Human annotation release 109 for GRCh38.p12 is available in RefSeq

Human annotation release 109 for GRCh38.p12 is available in RefSeq

You can now download human annotation release 109 on FTP or explore it in the Genome Data Viewer, in the Gene database, and with BLAST.

Highlights in release 109:

  • A total of 20,203 protein-coding genes and 17,871 non-coding genes were annotated.
  • The number of annotated curated transcripts increased by 17% and genes with two or more curated alternative variants increased by 8%.
  • The annotation includes 6,862 features and 2,075 GeneIDs for non-genic functional elements, such as regulatory regions and known structural elements. For example, see the opsin locus control region (OPSIN-LCR).

OPSIN-LCR
Figure 1. Graphical view of feature annotation at the opsin locus control region (OPSIN-LCR, GeneID:107604627).
  • Alignments for all known (NM_, NR_) and model (XM_, XR_) RefSeq transcripts to GRCh38.p12 are now available in BAM format.

See more recent annotation results on the NCBI Eukaryotic RefSeq Genome Annotation Status page.

2 thoughts on “Human annotation release 109 for GRCh38.p12 is available in RefSeq

  1. Hi
    in this new release,the alignment file of transcripts to reference is still interim_GRCh37.p13_knownrefseq_alignments_2017-01-13.bam, will you update this bam again?

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