Manual Annotation Studio (MAS): a collaborative platform for manual functional annotation of viral and microbial genomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Functional genome annotation is the process of labelling functional genomic regions with descriptive information. Manual curation can produce higher quality genome annotations than fully automated methods. Manual annotation efforts are time-consuming and complex; however, software can help reduce these drawbacks.

Results

We created Manual Annotation Studio (MAS) to improve the efficiency of the process of manual functional annotation prokaryotic and viral genomes. MAS allows users to upload unannotated genomes, provides an interface to edit and upload annotations, tracks annotation history and progress, and saves data to a relational database. MAS provides users with pertinent information through a simple point and click interface to execute and visualize results

SUBMITTER: Lueder MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8501643 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature