International Journal of Genomics and Data Mining is an online open access journal gathering information on various aspects related to genomics and data mining explorations setting aside various developments in field of bioinformatics. This journal publishes researchsubmissions, reviews, brief reports, case studies, rapid communications, letters to the editor, perspectives, image articles etc. providing a unique platform helping to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art scientific understanding on all the aspects of interdisciplinary genomics study.
genome annotation is the process of identifying the locations of genes and all of the coding regions in a genome and determining what those genes do. An annotation (irrespective of the context) is a note added by way of explanation or commentary. Once a genome is sequenced, it needs to be annotated to make sense of it.
For DNA annotation, a previously unknown sequence representation of genetic material is enriched with information relating genomic position to intron-exon boundaries, regulatory sequences, repeats, gene names and protein products. This annotation is stored in genomic databases such as Mouse Genome Informatics, FlyBase, and WormBase. Educational materials on some aspects of biological annotation from the 2006 Gene Ontology annotation camp and similar events are available at the Gene Ontology website.
enome annotation remains a major challenge for scientists investigating the human genome, now that the genome sequences of more than a thousand human individuals (The 100,000 Genomes Project, UK) and several model organisms are largely complete.Identifying the locations of genes and other genetic control elements is often described as defining the biological "parts list" for the assembly and normal operation of an organism.Scientists are still at an early stage in the process of delineating this parts list and in understanding how all the parts "fit together"