Annotation

The gene set for gibbon was built using the Ensembl gene annotation pipeline. Species-specific resources for gibbon are very limited and therefore sequences from human were used as supporting evidence for coding transcript models: Gibbon and human proteins were mapped to the genome using Genewise. Gibbon cDNAs, human cDNAs and human Ensembl translations from e!61 were mapped to the genome using Exonerate. In addition to the coding transcript models, non-coding RNAs and pseudogenes were also annotated.