Abstract
In most flowering plants, the plastid genome exhibits a quadripartite genome structure, comprising a large and a small single copy as well as two inverted repeat regions. Thousands of plastid genomes have been sequenced and submitted to public sequence repositories in recent years. The quality of sequence annotations in many of these submissions is known to be problematic, especially regarding annotations that specify the length and location of the inverted repeats: such annotations are either missing or portray the length or location of the repeats incorrectly. However, many biological investigations employ publicly available plastid genomes at face value and implicitly assume the correctness of their sequence annotations.
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Article
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BMC Bioinformatics
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Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Volume
22
Issue
1
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Mehl, T., & Gruenstaeudl, M. (2021). airpg: Automatically accessing the inverted repeats of archived plastid genomes. BMC Bioinformatics, 22(1), 413. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04309-y
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