1. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 1 the complexity of human genes The ENCODE Genes & Transcripts group Roderic Guigó Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona

2. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 2 genes and proteins One gene, one enzyme Beadle and Tatum The Central Dogma Francis Crick

3. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 3 from DNA to proteins most of the transcriptional output of the human genome is localized in well defined genomic loci, which encode mRNAs that, when exported into the cytosol, are translated into proteins

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6. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 6 1% of the genome. 44 regions target selection. commitee to select sequence targets –manual targets – a lot of information –radom targets – stratified by non exonic conservation with mouse gene density

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8. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 8 Long-range regulatory elements (enhancers, repressors/silencers, insulators) Cis-regulatory elements (promoters, transcription factor binding sites) DNA Replication DNase Hypersensitive Sites Genes and Transcripts Epigenetic 

9. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 9 gencode: encyclopedia of genes and gene variants Roderic Guigó, IMIM-UPF-CRG Stylianos Antonarakis, Geneve Alexandre Reymond Ewan Birney, EBI Michael Brent, WashU Lior Pachter, Berkeley Manolis Dermitzkakis, Sanger Jennifer Ashurst, Tim Hubbard identify all protein coding genes in the ENCODE regions: identify one complete mRNA sequence for at least one splice isoform of each protein coding gene. eventually, identify a number of additional alternative splice forms.

10. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 10 the gencode pipeline 1.mapping of known transcripts sequences (ESTs, cDNAs, proteins) into the human genome 2.manual curation to resolve conflicting evidence 3.additional computational predictions 4.experimental verification 5.FINAL ANNOTATION

11. THE GENCODE PIPELINE manual curation: havana (sanger) experimental verification: geneva bioinformatics: imim 2608 transcripts in 487 loci 137 transcripts in 53 non-coding loci 1097 coding transcripts and 1374 non-coding transcripts in 434 protein coding loci most of protein coding loci encode a mixture of protein coding and non-coding transcripts

12. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 12 one gene - many proteins very complex transcription units

13. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 13 chimering tandem transcription / intergenic splicing

14. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 14 KUA and UEV, Thomson et al., Genome Research 2000

15. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 15 systematic search for functional chimeras in ENCODE : 165 tandem pairs in the same orientation 126 chimeric predictions obtained 96 tested, at least 4 positve Parra et al., Genome Research 2006 Akiva et al., Genome Research 2006

16. Locus RP11-298J23.1 codes for pepsinogen C. The structure of pepsinogen C is 1htrA. Isoform -003 is missing 80 residues with respect to pepsinogen C. Here the missing section of -003 is in light green. The missing section in this isoform would remove the core from both subdomains of the structure. Both the N-terminal sub-domain (on the left) and the C-terminal sub-domain would have to refold. This is the view from above looking down into the active cleft of the proteinase. Active site aspartates are shown in ball and chain. One of the two active site residues is in the missing section. The symmetry apparent in this isoform suggests that although it will have to refold it may very well be able to reform into a single subdomain. Structural Effects of Pepsinogen C Alternative Splice Variant Michael Tress & Alfonso Valencia CNB, Madrid

17. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 17 ITGB4B 11 supporting ESTs Adam Frankish Sanger

18. 03/09/07 Bologna, February 2007 18 ALL EXONS CODING EXONS GENCODE vs OTHER GENE SETS

19. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 19 from the ENCODE Chromatin and Replication Group, John Stamatoyannopoulos

20. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 20 EGASP’05 the complete annotation of 13 regions was released in january 30. –The annotation of the remaining 31 regions was being obtained, and it was withheld. gene prediction groups were asked to submit predictions by april 15 in the remaining 31 regions. –18 groups participated, submiting 30 prediction sets predictions were compared to the annoations in an NHGRI sponsored workshop at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, on may 6 and 7.

21. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 21 EGASP’05 two main goals: 1.to assess how automatic methods are able to reproduce the (costly) manual/computational/experimental gencode annotation 2.how complete is the gencode annotation. are there still genes consistenly predicted by computational methods

22. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 22 accuracy measures

23. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 23 accuracy at the coding exon level evidence-based dual genome “ab intio”

24. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 24 accuracy at the exon level evidence-based dual genome “ab intio”

25. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 25 programs are quite good at calling the protein coding exons (accuracy at 80%) Not as good at calling the transcribed exons), but the best of the programs predict correctly only 40% of the complete transcripts (considering only the coding fraction)

26. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 26 many novel exons predicted: - 8,634 unique exons predicted in intergenic regions - we ranked the exons according to the accuracy of te predicted programs - tested 238 exon pairs by RT-PCR in 24 tissues - only 7 (less than 3%) were confirmed positive

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28. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 28 Long-range regulatory elements (enhancers, repressors/silencers, insulators) Cis-regulatory elements (promoters, transcription factor binding sites) DNA Replication DNase Hypersensitive Sites Genes and Transcripts Epigenetic 

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30. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 30 TRANSCRIPTION OF PROCESSED POLY A+ RNA based on a number of high throughput tecnologies 0.1%24,939Ditags* 14.7%2,355,238 TOTAL UNIQUE Transcribed Bases 0.5%151,149CAGE Tags* 9.3%1,278,588transfrag/tar 9.8%1,650,821Annotated exons % nucleotides covered Nb of nucleotide covered Total # of nucleotides : 29,998,060 non repeat masked : 14,707,189

31. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 31 cell specific transcription

32. 13618240 (92.6%) 9767311 (66.4%) 11763410 (80.0%) 9496360 (64.6%) 3545358 (24.1%) 2163303 (14.7%) 1369304 (9.3%) 19629 (0.1%) 116013 (0.8%) 1447192 (9.8%) 49.1470718929998060 INTERROGA TED 27325931 (91.1%) 19658563 (65.5%) 23318182 (77.7%) 17758738 (59.2%) 4826292 (16.1%) 2519280 (8.4%) 1369611 (4.6%) 24939 (0.1%) 151149 (0.5%) 1776157 (5.9%) 49.1470718929998060 TOTAL ( interrogated and uninterrogated ) Total Bases 12 (%)* Bases between PETs 11 (%)* Bases with 5'RACE 10 (%)* Bases in Exons and Introns 9 (%)* Bases in PT (ESTs included) 8 (%)* Total Bases in PT 7 (%)* bp in TF 6 (%)* bpin PET 5 (%)* bp in CAGE tags 4 (%)* bp in Exons 3 (%)*% Total Interro- gated Bases 2 Total Bases 1 PRIMARY TRANSCRIPTSPROCESSED TRANSCRIPTS (PT) Table 1: Summary of Transcriptional Coverage of ENCODE Regions.

33. 13618240 (92.6%) 9767311 (66.4%) 11763410 (80.0%) 9496360 (64.6%) 3545358 (24.1%) 2163303 (14.7%) 1369304 (9.3%) 19629 (0.1%) 116013 (0.8%) 1447192 (9.8%) 49.1470718929998060 INTERROGA TED 27325931 (91.1%) 19658563 (65.5%) 23318182 (77.7%) 17758738 (59.2%) 4826292 (16.1%) 2519280 (8.4%) 1369611 (4.6%) 24939 (0.1%) 151149 (0.5%) 1776157 (5.9%) 49.1470718929998060 TOTAL ( interrogated and uninterrogated ) Total Bases 12 (%)* Bases between PETs 11 (%)* Bases with 5'RACE 10 (%)* Bases in Exons and Introns 9 (%)* Bases in PT (ESTs included) 8 (%)* Total Bases in PT 7 (%)* bp in TF 6 (%)* bpin PET 5 (%)* bp in CAGE tags 4 (%)* bp in Exons 3 (%)*% Total Interro- gated Bases 2 Total Bases 1 PRIMARY TRANSCRIPTSPROCESSED TRANSCRIPTS (PT) Table 1: Summary of Transcriptional Coverage of ENCODE Regions.

34. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 34 tiling arrays reveal many novel sites of transcription TRANSCRIPTION MAP of HL-60 DEVELOPMENTAL TIME COURSE (data by Tom Gingeras, affymerix)

35. 03/09/07 Bologna, February 2007 35 SENSITIVITY OF GENCODE genome tiling arrays more than 6,000 unique transfrags corresponding to unannotated sites of transcription (from 11 cell lines/conditions) 4044 unique intronic transfrags –3572 predicted into 1105 alternatively skipped protein coding exons –240 tested by rt-pcr. Results this week!

36. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 36 characteristics of unannotated transfrags short: 78bp on average compared with 121 for exonic transfrags very gc-rich: 56% vs 42% in the background of unannoated regions lack splice sites no matches to protein or domain databases lack of selective constraints HOWEVER: reproducible across cell lines support by independent evidence of transcription (mostly unspliced ESTs). enriched for RNA structures.

37. 03/09/07 Bologna, February 2007 37 RACEarray experiments 5’ RACE on 12 tissues primers in internal exons of 399 protein coding loci RACE products hybridized into genome tiling arrays –4573 race exons detected. 2324 novel –only 15% corresponding to unannotated transfrags

38. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 38 Denoeud et al., “Prominent use of distal 5’ transcription start sites and discovery of a large number of additional exons in ENCODE regions”, accepted for publication Genome Research 5’ RACE on 12 tissues primers in internal exons of 399 protein coding loci RACE products hybridized into genome tiling arrays –4573 race exons detected. 2324 novel the RACE/array experiments

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41. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 41 Target gene 5’ RACE from TMEM15 Gene (region Enr232) identifies several tissue specific distal 5’ exons.

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43. distal RACEfrags are associated to independently predictes sites of transcription initiation

44. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 44 cloning and sequencing of RACEarray products

45. Bologna, February 2007 45 cloning and sequencing of RACEarray products almost 30% of the sequenced products incorporate exons from upstream genes in chimeric structures

46. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 46 RT-PCR/arrays, cloning and sequencing 136 novel transcripts (29 chimeric) in 69 loci 71 potential new CDS in 37 loci (14 chimeric) 225 novel exons

47. March 9, 2007 Bologna, February 2007 47 CONCLUSIONS there is substantial amount of transcription which does not appear to be associated to protein coding loci only a fraction of the transcript diversity of protein coding loci appears to have been surveyed so far. –in particular, protein coding loci appear to have tissue specific distal alternative transcriptional start sites ENCODE transcriptional landscape: network of overlapping coding and non-coding transcripts, resulting in a continuum of transcription (more than 90% of the ENCODE regions are transcribed in at least one strand)

48. ACKNOWLEDGEMNTS ENCODE GT GROUP Stilyanos Antonarakis (Geneva) Robert Baertsch (UCSC) Ian Bell (Affx) Ewan Birney (EBI) Robert Castelo (IMIM) Jill Cheng (Affx) Evelyn Cheung (Affx) Hiram Clawson (UCSC) France Denoeud (IMIM) Sujit Dike (Affymetrix) Jorg Drenkow (Affymetrix) Olof.Emanuelsson (Yale) Paul Flicek (Sanger) Mark Gerstein (Yale) Srinka Ghosh (Affx) Jenn Harrow (Sanger) Greg Helt (Afffx) Ivo Hofacker (U. Vienna) Tim Hubbard (Sanger) Phil Kapranov (Affx) Damian Keefe (EBI) Jan Korbel (Yale) Julien Lagarde (IMIM) Jeff Long (Affx) Todd Lowe (UCSC) G. Madhavan (Affx) Anton Nekrutenko (Penn State) David Nix (Affx) Jakob Pedersen (UCSC) Alex Reymond Geneva) Joel Rozowsky (Yale) Yijun Runan (GIS) Albin Sandelin (RIKEN) Mike Snyder (Yale) Peter F. Stadler (U. Vienna) Kevin Struhl (Harvard) Hari Tammana (Affx) Scott Tennenbaun (SUNY, Albany) Chia Lin Wei (GIS) Matt Weirauch (UCSC) Deyou Zheng (Yale) Addam Frankish(Sanger) Tom Gingeras (Affymetrix) Roderic Guigó (CRG)

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