Meeting Report: Towards a Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation Experiment (CAFAE) for bacterial genome annotation

Journal Article · 30 December 2010 · Standards in Genomic Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.1323436 · OSTI ID:1629723

White, Owen ^[1]; Kyrpides, Nikos ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States). School of Medicine. Inst. for Genome Sciences
2. USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)

It is widely recognized that, with the advent of very high throughput, short read, and highly parallelized sequencing technologies, the generation of new DNA sequences from microbes, plants, metagenomes is outpacing the ability to assign functions to (“annotate”) all this data. To begin to try to address this, on May 18 and 19, 2010, a team of roughly fifty people met to define and scope the possibility of a first Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation Experiment (CAFAE) for bacterial genome annotation in Crystal City, Virginia. Due to the fundamental importance of genomic data to its mission, the Department of Energy (DOE) BER program hosted this workshop, funding the attendance of all invitees. The workshop was coorganized by Dan Drell and Susan Gregurick (DOE), Owen White and Nikos Kyripides.

• Research Organization: USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States); Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division
• OSTI ID: 1629723
• Journal Information: Standards in Genomic Sciences, Journal Name: Standards in Genomic Sciences Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 3; ISSN 1944-3277
• Publisher: BioMed CentralCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English