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Refining Genome Annotations with Apollo

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last_modification Published: Jun 4, 2021
last_modification Last Updated: Oct 15, 2024

Genome annotation

.image-50[JBrowse screenshot showing several genes aligned along a genome]

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Automatic annotations are not perfect

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.pull-right[.image-40[Apollo screenshot showing how RNASeq reads align mostly within some exons limits, but not perfectly]]

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Manual curation refines genome annotations

.pull-left[.image-75[Schema showing how automated annotation, experimental evidences (cDNAs, HMM domain searches, RNASeq, similarity with other species), and human analysis are used by Apollo to manually curate an annotation]]

.pull-right[.image-25[Apollo screenshot showing how RNASeq reads align mostly within some exons limits, but not perfectly]]

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Apollo

“Google Docs for Genome Annotation”

.image-50[Screenshot of Apollo in Galaxy, apollo takes up most of the space in the center iframe with the history shown on the right.]

Collaborative web application to edit annotation

Both structural and functional annotation

Based on JBrowse: JBrowse is for visualising only, Apollo allows to edit

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Apollo

.pull-left[.image-90[Animation showing how the limit of an exon can be changed within Apollo by a simple drag-and-drop]] .pull-right[.image-90[Screenshot of the Apollo form allowing to edit functional annotation]]

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Apollo

Multi user environment: users can login, and make/see changes in realtime

Full history of changes, reverting is possible

Screenshot of the history panel, with a list of actions and possibility to revert

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Apollo in Galaxy

Integrate Apollo in your whole analysis project in Galaxy

  1. Run assembly
  2. Align evidences along the genome (RNASeq, CDS, proteins)
  3. Run automatic annotation pipeline
  4. Create a JBrowse instance
  5. Load the JBrowse instance into Apollo
  6. Use Apollo to manually curate annotation with collaborators
  7. Export back the curated annotation into Galaxy
  8. Continue analysing in Galaxy

Available on https://usegalaxy.eu

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Apollo in Galaxy: collaborating

Invite any other Galaxy user to your curation project

Screenshot of the dialog allowing to share the access to other users

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Hands-on: Hands on!

Time to follow the Apollo tutorial!

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Thank you!

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Funding

These individuals or organisations provided funding support for the development of this resource

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This project (2020-1-NL01-KA203-064717) is funded with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Their funding has supported a large number of tutorials within the GTN across a wide array of topics.