Genome Annotation

Genome annotation is the process of identifying and labelling features on a genome assembly. The higher the quality of the annotation, the higher the utility of the genome in comparative, functional, evolutionary and ecological genomics. 

We offer fully subsidised resources to help Australian researchers undertake genome annotation. For the full range of relevant services and resources visit our genomics page.

If you're looking for annotation specific tools, try these:

• Access many genome annotation tools with significant underlying compute power through your web browser via Galaxy Australia

  • New to genome annotation? Try the streamlined interface at Galaxy Australia’s Genome Lab

• Access the commercial Fgenesh++ eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline through BioCommons’ licensing agreement

• Use the Australian Apollo Service to manually curate genomes annotations and displays via a web browser accessible and hosted Apollo instance

• Browse self-paced training materials freely available via the Galaxy Training Network

• Find annotation software and tools across Australian computational infrastructure with ToolFinder

• Find annotation workflows to deploy or implement with WorkflowHub.

Join the conversation - all welcome!

We coordinate a joint community for genome assembly and annotation, which aims to:

• Provide a forum for the community to connect and share knowledge 

• Understand the bioinformatics challenges of relevance to genome assembly and annotation

• Identify gaps in community scale digital infrastructure currently available for genome assembly and annotation

• Deploy national scale solutions that address these gaps or challenges when relevant

Roadmap

We have been engaging with a broad group of Australian researchers working across a wide variety of taxa since 2019 to develop a Genome Annotation Infrastructure Roadmap for Australia which presents a community vision for shared national infrastructure that will help researchers undertake genome annotation.