GENCODE PCR-Seq Batch IX

As part of the ENCODE consortium the GENCODE project is producing a reference gene set through manual and automated gene prediction. Selected transcript models are verified experimentally by RT-PCR amplification followed by sequencing. In batch IX, a set of de novo transcript models was tested aiming to incorporate new long non-coding RNA models into the GENCODE annotation. The original set was built with Cufflinks from ENCODE RNAseq data derived from 15 cell lines by the Gingeras (CSHL) and Wold (CalTech) labs. A subset of multiexonic transcripts not overlapping the GENCODE v10 annotation was selected for this experiment.