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De novo reconstruction of the Toxoplasma gondii transcriptome improves on the current genome annotation and reveals alternatively spliced transcripts and putative long non-coding RNAs.

BMC genomics | 2012

Accurate gene model predictions and annotation of alternative splicing events are imperative for genomic studies in organisms that contain genes with multiple exons. Currently most gene models for the intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, are based on computer model predictions without cDNA sequence verification. Additionally, the nature and extent of alternative splicing in Toxoplasma gondii is unknown. In this study, we used de novo transcript assembly and the published type II (ME49) genomic sequence to quantify the extent of alternative splicing in Toxoplasma and to improve the current Toxoplasma gene annotations.

Pubmed ID: 23231500 RIS Download

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Associated grants

  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AI080621
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U54 AI057159
  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01-AI080621

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