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Roadmap for Annotating Transposable Elements in Eukaryote Genomes

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Mobile Genetic Elements

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 859))

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Current high-throughput techniques have made it feasible to sequence even the genomes of non-model organisms. However, the annotation process now represents a bottleneck to genome analysis, especially when dealing with transposable elements (TE). Combined approaches, using both de novo and knowledge-based methods to detect TEs, are likely to produce reasonably comprehensive and sensitive results. This chapter provides a roadmap for researchers involved in genome projects to address this issue. At each step of the TE annotation process, from the identification of TE families to the annotation of TE copies, we outline the tools and good practices to be used.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by grants from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Holocentrism project, to HQ [grant number ANR-07-BLAN-0057]) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique—Groupement de Recherche 2157 “Elements Transposables.” TF was supported by a PhD studentship form the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. EP was supported by a Post-Doctoral fellowship form the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

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    Emmanuelle Permal, Timothée Flutre & Hadi Quesneville

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Permal, E., Flutre, T., Quesneville, H. (2012). Roadmap for Annotating Transposable Elements in Eukaryote Genomes. In: Bigot, Y. (eds) Mobile Genetic Elements. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 859. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-603-6_3

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