Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation - a tardigrade perspective.
Valentina PeonaJacopo MartelossiDareen AlmojilJulia BocharkinaIoana BrännströmMax BrownAlice CangTomàs Carrasco-ValenzuelaJon DeVriesMeredith DoellmanDaniel ElsnerPamela Espíndola-HernándezGuillermo Friis MontoyaBence GasparDanijela ZagorskiPaweł HałakucBeti IvanovskaChristopher LaumerRobert LehmannLjudevit Luka BoštjančićRahia MashoodhSofia MazzoleniAlice MoutonMaria Anna NilssonYifan PeiGiacomo PotentePanagiotis ProvatarisJosé Ramón Pardos-BlasRavindra RautTomasa SbaffiFlorian SchwarzJessica StapleyLewis StevensNusrat SultanaRadka SymonovaMohadeseh S TahamiAlice UrzìHeidi YangAbdullah YusufCarlo PecoraroAlexander SuhPublished in: Mobile DNA (2024)
The collaborative manual curation of TEs from two tardigrade species, for which there were no TE libraries available, resulted in the successful characterization of hundreds of new and diverse TEs in a reasonable time frame. Our crowd-sourcing setting can be used as a teaching reference guide for similar projects: A hidden treasure awaits discovery within non-model organisms.