Participating Groups and Associated Annotation Categories
| Program name | Gene finding | Promoter recognition | EST/c DNA alignment | Protein similarity | Repeat | Gene function | |
| Mural et al. Oakridge, US | GRAIL | X | X | X | |||
| Parra et al. Barcelona, ES | GeneID | X | |||||
| Krogh Copenhagen, DK | HMMGene | X | |||||
| Henikoff et al. Seattle, US | BLOCKS | X | X | ||||
| Solovyev et al. Sanger, UK | FGenes | X | |||||
| Gaasterland et al. Rockefeller, US | MAGPIE | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Benson et al. Mount Sinai, US | TRF | X | |||||
| Werner et al. Munich, GER | CoreInspector | X | |||||
| Ohler et al. Nuremberg, GER | MCPromoter | X | |||||
| Birney Sanger, UK | GeneWise | X | X | ||||
| Reese et al. Berkeley/Santa Cruz, US | Genie | X | X |