TRANScendence: Transposable Elements Database and De-novo Mining Tool Allows Inferring TEs Activity Chronology

摘要

It has recently come to general attention that TEs may be a major (if not the main) driving force behind speciation and evolution of species. Thus understanding of TE behavior seems crucial to deepening our knowledge on evolution. However, the lack of general, easily-usable and free available tools for TEs detection and annotation, hinders scientific progress in this area. This is especially apparent with the advent of next-generation sequencing techniques, and the resultant abundance of genomic data, most of which has not been scanned for transposable elements yet.