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A beginner’s guide to eukaryotic genome annotation
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The falling cost of genome sequencing is having a marked impact on the research community with respect to which genomes are sequenced and how and where they are annotated. Genome annotation projects have generally become small-scale affairs that are often carried out by an individual laboratory. Although annotating a eukaryotic genome assembly is now within the reach of non-experts, it remains a challenging task. Here we provide an overview of the genome annotation process and the available tools and describe some best-practice approaches.
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Gene identification is commonly performed with a mix of three types of evidence: ab initio gene prediction, homology-based inference, and transcriptomic data.
“Gene identification is commonly performed with a mix of three types of evidence: ab initio gene prediction, homology-based inference, and transcriptomic data (Yandell and Ence 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yandell, M., & Ence, D.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Published
- 2012-04-18
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 329-342
- ISSN
- 1471-0056
- 1471-0064
- Cited by
- 588
- References
- 12
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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