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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>How
are you? I am a bioinformatician working at Duke Sequencing Core facility. I
work on a lichen genome annotation project. Lichen has two genomes, mycobiont
and photobiont. We are looking for tools software for automated genome
annotation in non-model systems. So far, we are interested in two software
packages specifically (but open to any suggestion). One of them is called MAKER
recommended by GMOD. The other one is JGI annotation pipeline </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.jsbi.org/journal/GIW06/GIW06P136.pdf">http://www.jsbi.org/journal/GIW06/GIW06P136.pdf</a></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>. MARKER is good at gene
structural annotation. And JGI annotation pipeline provides additional
functional annotation. I could be wrong. What do you think? This is my first
time working on a genome annotation projection. I would really appreciate if you
can give me any suggestion or direct me to the right person. Looking forward to
your reply. Thanks!</span><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Ty</span><span
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