MegaLTR: a web server and standalone pipeline for detecting and annotating LTR-retrotransposons in plant genomes.

ABSTRACT: LTR-retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are a class of RNA-replicating transposon elements (TEs) that can alter genome structure and function by moving positions, repositioning genes, shifting exons, and causing chromosomal rearrangements. LTR-RTs are widespread in many plant genomes and constitute a significant portion of the genome. Their movement and activity in eukaryotic genomes can provide insight into genome evolution and gene function, especially when LTR-RTs are located near or within genes. Building the redundant and non-redundant LTR-RTs libraries and their annotations for species lacking this resource requires extensive bioinformatics pipelines and expensive computing power to analyze large amounts of genomic data. This increases the need for online services that provide computational r

SUBMITTER: Mokhtar MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10552921 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature