Improving the Annotation of Arabidopsis lyrata Using RNA-Seq Data.

ABSTRACT: Gene model annotations are important community resources that ensure comparability and reproducibility of analyses and are typically the first step for functional annotation of genomic regions. Without up-to-date genome annotations, genome sequences cannot be used to maximum advantage. It is therefore essential to regularly update gene annotations by integrating the latest information to guarantee that reference annotations can remain a common basis for various types of analyses. Here, we report an improvement of the Arabidopsis lyrata gene annotation using extensive RNA-seq data. This new annotation consists of 31,132 protein coding gene models in addition to 2,089 genes with high similarity to transposable elements. Overall, ~87% of the gene models are corroborated by evidence of express

SUBMITTER: Rawat V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4575116 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature