[maker-devel] MAKER version 3.1 and integration with resequencing

[Ole Kristian Tørresen]

Hi all,
I was asked to provide some text for a short description of assembly and annotation of a genome, and did some quick googling to see if I was up to date on what has happened with MAKER lately. 

First I found the publication from last year describing sequencing and annotation of the desert woodrat (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213596016300800). When reading that article, I saw references to MAKER 3.1. As far as I can see from http://yandell.topaz.genetics.utah.edu/cgi-bin/maker_license.cgi, the latest MAKER is 3.00.0-beta. Is 3.1 available somewhere, or is it going to be released soon? 

I also saw that a poster that was presented at PAG last year (https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxiv/webprogram/Paper19035.html) and was intrigued with the last sentence “...integrating MAKER with resequencing efforts to enable rapid genotype-phenotype association.” Is this part of MAKER 3.1, or a separate effort? I am very interested in the status of this.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Ole