The GENCODE Genes track (version 21, October 2014) shows high-quality manual annotations merged with evidence-based automated annotations across the entire human genome generated by the GENCODE project. The GENCODE gene set presents a full merge between HAVANA manual annotation process and Ensembl automatic annotation pipeline. Priority is given to the manually curated HAVANA annotation using predicted Ensembl annotations when there are no corresponding manual annotations. The annotation was carried out on genome assembly GRCh38 (hg38).
As of GENCODE Version 11, Ensembl and GENCODE have converged. The gene annotations in the GENCODE comprehensive set are the same as the corresponding Ensembl release. UCSC will continue to provide a separate Ensembl track on Human in the same format as the Ensembl tracks on other organisms.
Selected transcript models are verified experimentally by RT-PCR amplification followed by sequencing. Those experiments can be found at GEO:
See Harrow et al. (2006) for information on verification techniques.
GENCODE version 20 corresponds to Ensembl 76 and Vega 56.
See also: The GENCODE Project