BleTIES: annotation of natural genome editing in ciliates using long read sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Summary

Ciliates are single-celled eukaryotes that eliminate specific, interspersed DNA sequences (internally eliminated sequences, IESs) from their genomes during development. These are challenging to annotate and assemble because IES-containing sequences are typically much less abundant in the cell than those without, and IES sequences themselves often contain repetitive and low-complexity sequences. Long-read sequencing technologies from Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore have the potential to reconstruct longer IESs than has been possible with short reads but require a different assembly strategy. Here we present BleTIES, a software toolkit for detecting, assembling, and analyzing IESs using mapped long reads.

Availability and implementation

BleTIES is implemented i

SUBMITTER: Seah BKB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11301610 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature