| There is currently some confusion in the community about the relationship between DasGff? and the GAME descended dtds - like ComputationDtd, AnnotationDtd? and FeatureDtd. The fact is that these formats are highly complimentary.
DasGff? was designed as a lowest common denominator format for sequence features for use with das - http://stein.cshl.org/das . das is a search engine for sequence features. It is designed to give you a framework for annotations posted by different labs and a link to ways to dig deeper into the annotations you find.
GAME - http://www.bioxml.org/Projects/game - was designed for the purpose of transferring the drosophila sequence and annotations done from celera to the bdgp. It is a full-featured model for doing sequence annotation - maintaining a formal differentiation between computational analyses and human annotations.
From those descriptions the relationship follows naturally - Das is a search engine whose DasGff? files should lead you to more sophisticated annotation formats like GAME.
This is Jason's Test.
Related pages: Unclassified?
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