The manual annotation of the human genome is an ongoing project by the Havana group at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute. A first pass annotation of the whole genome has been completed as part of the Gencode project.

Publications

• Harrow J, Frankish A, Gonzalez JM, Tapanari E, Diekhans M, Kokocinski F, Aken BL, Barrell D, Zadissa A, Searle S, Barnes I, Bignell A, Boychenko V, Hunt T, Kay M, Mukherjee G, Rajan J, Despacio-Reyes G, Saunders G, Steward C, Harte R, Lin M, Howald C, Tanzer A, Derrien T, Chrast J, Walters N, Balasubramanian S, Pei B, Tress M, Rodriguez JM, Ezkurdia I, van Baren J, Brent M, Haussler D, Kellis M, Valencia A, Reymond A, Gerstein M, Guigó R, Hubbard TJ.
  GENCODE: the reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project.
  Genome Res. 2012 Sep;22(9):1760-74. [Pubmed] [doi:10.1101/gr.135350.111].