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List of plastome annotation tools#

year Tool name Publication Type Method Organism Comments
2004 DOGMA Wyman SK, Jansen RK and Boore JL (2004) Automatic annotation of organellar genomes with DOGMA. Bioinformatics 20: 3252-3255 plant chloroplast and animal mitochondrial
2007 MFannot Developed by the labs of B. Franz Lang and Gertraud Burger (unpublished) pipeline abinitio + similarity annotation of mitochondrial and plastid genomes output not easy to deal with. AGAT can be used to convert the output in gff
 2011 MAKER2 Holt, C. & Yandell, M. MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects. BMC Bioinformatics 12, 491 (2011). pipeline Eukaryote, Prokaryote but alignment approach can be used for other type It uses proteins, transcripts ... Abinitio: Augustus, Fgnesh,Genemark,snap. Need to modify the code to accept specific codon table for mitochondria. Not the best choice but provide nice protein alignments useful for manual curation
2012 CpGAVAS Liu C, Shi L, Zhu Y, Chen H, Zhang J, Lin X and Guan X (2012) CpGAVAS, an integrated web server for the annotation, visualization, analysis, and GenBank submission of completely sequenced chloroplast genome sequences. BMC Genomics 13: 715 web based tool
2013 CGAP Cheng J, Zeng Xu, Ren G and Liu Z (2013) CGAP: a new comprehensive platform for the comparative analysis of chloroplast genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 14:95 comparative
2014 Prokka Seemann T., Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation. Bioinformatics 2014 Jul 15;30(14):2068-9. PMID:24642063 pipeline Ab initio + evidence-based for functional annotation prokaryote Do structural and functional annotation. No intron allowed!
2015 ORG.Annot Developed by Eric Coissac (unpublished) Pipeline
2015 Plann Plann: A command‐line application for annotating plastome sequences. DI Huang, QCB Cronk. Applications in Plant Sciences 3 (8), 1500026, 2015. 226, 2015. chloroplast genome annotation
2017 Geseq Tillich M, Lehwark P, Pellizzer T, Ulbricht-Jones ES, Fischer A, Bock R and Greiner S (2017) GeSeq – versatile and accurate annotation of organelle genomes. Nucleic Acids Research 45: W6-W11 chloroplast mitochondria web based tool
2017 Verdant McKain MR, Hartsock RH, Wohl MM, Kellogg EA. 2017. Verdant: automated annotation, alignment and phylogenetic analysis of whole chloroplast genomes. Bioinformatics. 33:130–132. chloroplast
2018 AGORA Jung J, Kim JI, Jeong Y-S and Yi, G (2018) AGORA: organellar genome annotation from the amino acid and nucleotide references. Bioinformatics 34: 2661-2663 organelle genome annotation ( mitochondrion and plastid genomes of eukaryotes ) web application
2019 CpGAVAS2 Shi L, Chen H, Jiang M, Wang L, Wu X, Huang L and Liu C (2019) CPGAVAS2, an integrated plastome sequence annotator and analyzer. Nucleic Acids Research, gkz345

Interesting resource
https://chlorobox.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/Alternative-Tools.html