<i>Companion</i>: a web server for annotation and analysis of parasite genomes



Steinbiss, Sascha, Silva-Franco, Fatima ORCID: 0000-0002-2900-027X, Brunk, Brian, Foth, Bernardo, Hertz-Fowler, Christiane ORCID: 0000-0002-0729-6479, Berriman, Matthew and Otto, Thomas D
(2016) <i>Companion</i>: a web server for annotation and analysis of parasite genomes. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, 44 (W1). W29-W34.

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Abstract

Currently available sequencing technologies enable quick and economical sequencing of many new eukaryotic parasite (apicomplexan or kinetoplastid) species or strains. Compared to SNP calling approaches, de novo assembly of these genomes enables researchers to additionally determine insertion, deletion and recombination events as well as to detect complex sequence diversity, such as that seen in variable multigene families. However, there currently are no automated eukaryotic annotation pipelines offering the required range of results to facilitate such analyses. A suitable pipeline needs to perform evidence-supported gene finding as well as functional annotation and pseudogene detection up to the generation of output ready to be submitted to a public database. Moreover, no current tool includes quick yet informative comparative analyses and a first pass visualization of both annotation and analysis results. To overcome those needs we have developed the Companion web server (http://companion.sanger.ac.uk) providing parasite genome annotation as a service using a reference-based approach. We demonstrate the use and performance of Companion by annotating two Leishmania and Plasmodium genomes as typical parasite cases and evaluate the results compared to manually annotated references.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Plasmodium falciparum, Leishmania, Protozoan Proteins, RNA, Protozoan, Sensitivity and Specificity, Phylogeny, Genome, Protozoan, Internet, Software, Databases, Genetic, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Gene Ontology
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 01 Jun 2016 09:57
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2023 05:29
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw292
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3001443