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GAMOLA2, a comprehensive software package for the annotation, curation and submission of draft and complete microbial genomes

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posted on 2023-05-03, 16:52 authored by Eric Altermann, Jingli LuJingli Lu, Alan McCulloch
Expert curated annotation remains one of the critical steps in achieving a reliable biological relevant annotation. Here we announce the release of GAMOLA2, a user friendly and comprehensive software package to process, annotate and curate draft and complete bacterial and viral genomes. GAMOLA2 represents a wrapping tool to combine functional Blast, COG, Pfam, and TIGRfam analyses with structural predictions including detection of tRNAs, rRNA genes, non-coding RNAs, signal protein cleavage sites, transmembrane helices, CRISPR repeats and vector sequence contaminations. GAMOLA2 has already been validated in a wide range of bacterial and archaeal genomes, and its modular concept allows easy addition of further functionality in future releases. A modified and adapted version of the Artemis Genome Viewer (Sanger Institute) has been developed to leverage the additional features and underlying information provided by the GAMOLA2 analysis, and is part of the software distribution. In addition to genome annotations, GAMOLA2 features, among others, supplemental modules that assist in the creation of custom Blast databases, annotation transfers between genome versions, and the preparation of Genbank files for submission via the NCBI Sequin tool. GAMOLA2 is intended to be run under a Linux environment, whereas the subsequent visualisation and manual curation in Artemis is mobile and platform independent. The development of GAMOLA2 is ongoing and community driven. New functionality can easily be added upon user requests, ensuring that GAMOLA2 provides information relevant to microbiologists. The software is available free of charge for academic use from https://github.com/EricAltermann/GAMOLA2.

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Copyright © 2017 Altermann, Lu and McCulloch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Frontiers Media

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Frontiers in Microbiology

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1664-302X

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Altermann, E., Lu, J., & McCulloch, A. (2017). GAMOLA2, a comprehensive software package for the annotation, curation and submission of draft and complete microbial genomes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 346. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00346

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