title: EGASP: collaboration through competition to find human genes.
abstract: According to the most recent estimates, the number of human genes is possibly--but not certainly--between 20,000 and 25,000. To contribute strategies to reduce this uncertainty, several groups working on computational gene prediction met recently at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute with the goal to test and compare predictive methods of genome annotation.
authors.affiliation: Municipal Institute of Medical Research and Center for Genomic Regulation, University Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 80, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. rguigo@imim.es
authors.forename: Roderic
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guigó
authors.forename: Martin G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Reese
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*