Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation - a tardigrade perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The advancement of sequencing technologies results in the rapid release of hundreds of new genome assemblies a year providing unprecedented resources for the study of genome evolution. Within this context, the significance of in-depth analyses of repetitive elements, transposable elements (TEs) in particular, is increasingly recognized in understanding genome evolution. Despite the plethora of available bioinformatic tools for identifying and annotating TEs, the phylogenetic distance of the target species from a curated and classified database of repetitive element sequences constrains any automated annotation effort. Moreover, manual curation of raw repeat libraries is deemed essential due to the frequent incompleteness of automatically generated consensus sequences.

SUBMITTER: Peona V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11071193 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature