FunFun: ITS-based functional annotator of fungal communities.

ABSTRACT: The study of individual fungi and their communities is of great interest to modern biology because they might be both producers of useful compounds, such as antibiotics and organic acids, and pathogens of various diseases. And certain features associated with the functional capabilities of fungi are determined by differences in gene content. Information about gene content is most often taken from the results of functional annotation of the whole genome. However, in practice, whole genome sequencing of fungi is rarely performed. At the same time, usually sequence amplicons of the ITS region to identify fungal taxonomy. But in the case of amplicon sequencing there is no way to perform a functional annotation. Here, we present FunFun, the instrument that allows to evaluate the gene content of

SUBMITTER: Krivonos DV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994472 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature