Many coding genes are well annotated with their biological functions. Non-coding regions typically lack such annotation. GREAT assigns biological meaning to a set of non-coding genomic regions by analyzing the annotations of the nearby genes. Thus, it is particularly useful in studying cis functions of sets of non-coding genomic regions. Cis-regulatory regions can be identified via both experimental methods (e.g. ChIP-seq) and by computational methods (e.g. comparative genomics). For more see our Nature Biotech Paper.
Aug. 19, 2019: GREAT version 4 adds support for human hg38 assembly and updates ontology datasets for all supported assemblies.
Sep. 8, 2018: GREAT has served over 1 million job submissions.
