Genome Annotation in Plants and Fungi: EuGène as a Model Platform
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Sylvain Foissac1,2, Jérôme Gouzy3, Stephane Rombauts4,5, Catherine Mathé2, Joëlle Amselem6,7, Lieven Sterck4,5, Yves Van de Peer*,4,5, Pierre Rouzé8
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
Description
In this era of whole genome sequencing, reliable genome annotations (identification of functional regions) are the cornerstones for many subsequent analyses. Not only is careful annotation important for studying the gene and gene family content of a genome and its host, but also for wide-scale transcriptome and proteome analyses attempting to describe a certain biological process or to get a global picture of a cell's behavior. Although the number of sequenced genomes is increasing thanks to the application of new technologies, genome-wide analyses will critically depend on the quality of the genome annotations. However, the annotation process is more complicated in the plant field than in the animal field because of the limited funding that leads to much fewer experimental data and less annotation expertise. This situation calls for highly automated annotation platforms that can make the best use of all available data, experimental or not. We discuss how the gene prediction (the process of predicting protein gene structures in genomic sequences) research field increasingly shifts from methods that typically exploited one or two types of data to more integrative approaches that simultaneously deal with various experimental, statistical, or other in silico evidence. We illustrate the importance of integrative approaches for producing high-quality automatic annotations of genomes of plants and algae as well as of fungi that live in close association with plants using the platform EuGène as an example.
Current Bioinformatics, 2008, 3, 87-97
