期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
卷 34, 期 5, 页码 663-686出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2016.03.001
关键词
Parasitic worms; Bioinformatics; Genome; Assembly; Annotation
资金
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Australian Academy of Science
- Australian-American Fulbright Commission
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Melbourne Water Corporation
- Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI)
- WormBase
Billions of people and animals are infected with parasitic worms (helminths). Many of these worms cause diseases that have a major socioeconomic impact worldwide, and are challenging to control because existing treatment methods are often inadequate. There is, therefore, a need to work toward developing new intervention methods, built on a sound understanding of parasitic worms at molecular level, the relationships that they have with their animal hosts and/or the diseases that they cause. Decoding the genomes and transcriptomes of these parasites brings us a step closer to this goal. The key focus of this article is to critically review and discuss bioinformatic tools used for the assembly and annotation of these genomes and transcriptomes, as well as various post-genomic analyses of transcription profiles, biological pathways, synteny, phylogeny, biogeography and the prediction and prioritisation of drug target candidates. Bioinformatic pipelines implemented and established recently provide practical and efficient tools for the assembly and annotation of genomes of parasitic worms, and will be applicable to a wide range of other parasites and eukaryotic organisms. Future research will need to assess the utility of long-read sequence data sets for enhanced genomic assemblies, and develop improved algorithms for gene prediction and post-genomic analyses, to enable comprehensive systems biology explorations of parasitic organisms. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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