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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi,<br>
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I am using MAKER to annotate a newly sequenced genome. I have trained and retrained with datasets but I would like some advice on assessing the output and how this is affected by the input provided.<br>
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- I have transcriptome data from 454 and Illumina platforms. Illumina is from a single time point and 454 from multiple time point. 454 was assembled using Newbler(dataset 1) and Illumina using Tophat-Cufflinks (dataset 2) and the denovo Trinity pipeline (dataset
3). I now have3 assemblies - 454 and Illumina will have some redunant transcripts (because of one overlapping time point); TopHat-Cufflinks and Trinity will have highly redundant transcripts (because they use same raw reads). Is it OK to provide all 3 datasets
as EST evidence, how does it affect the quality of annotation. (For now I have used dataset 1 and dataset 2 as EST evidence)<br>
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- I used the above model to retrain, I passed through everything except the abinitio gene predictions. I also provided a set a manually annotated genes , many of which have EST evidence. Is this OK to do? [ For proteins evidence, I gave a set from related organisms,
same as above]<br>
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- In my third retraining, I used the above retrained model, but this time I only provided the genome_gff but did not pass through any other data. However I did provide the manually annotated genes as EST evidence and related proteins as protein_evidence.
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Can you please give me some advice on which of these could give me the best prediction, or if I can alter something to get a better prediction.<br>
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- A quick question about Augustus - I used a Augustus model (trained for a closely related organism) for ab-initio prediction. Does MAKER adjust this model based on the evidence provided, or use the model as such for a prediction.<br>
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Greatly appreciate your help!<br>
Thanks!<br>
Ranjani<br>
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