Valentina Peona, Jacopo Martelossi, Dareen Almojil, Julia Bocharkina, Ioana Brännström, Max Brown, Alice Cang, Tomàs Carrasco-Valenzuela, Jon DeVries, Meredith Doellman, Daniel Elsner, Pamela Espíndola-Hernández, Guillermo Friis Montoya, Bence Gaspar, Danijela Zagorski, Paweł Hałakuc, Beti Ivanovska, Christopher Laumer, Robert Lehmann, Ljudevit Luka Boštjančić, Rahia Mashoodh, Sofia Mazzoleni, Alice Mouton, Maria Anna Nilsson, Yifan Pei, Giacomo Potente, Panagiotis Provataris, José Ramón Pardos-Blas, Ravindra Raut, Tomasa Sbaffi, Florian Schwarz, Jessica Stapley, Lewis Stevens, Nusrat Sultana, Radka Symonova, Mohadeseh S Tahami, Alice Urzì, Heidi Yang, Abdullah Yusuf, Carlo Pecoraro, Alexander Suh
BACKGROUND: The advancement of sequencing technologies results in the rapid release of hundreds of new genome assemblies a year providing unprecedented resources for the study of genome evolution. Within this context, the significance of in-depth analyses of repetitive elements, transposable elements (TEs) in particular, is increasingly recognized in understanding genome evolution. Despite the plethora of available bioinformatic tools for identifying and annotating TEs, the phylogenetic distance of the target species from a curated and classified database of repetitive element sequences constrains any automated annotation effort...
May 6, 2024: Mobile DNA