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rDNA ITS based identification of Eukaryotes and their communication via DOIs
Curation of DNA sequences
Third-party annotations are a valuable resource to improve the quality of public DNA sequences. For example, sequences in International Nucleotide Sequence Databases Collaboration (INSDC) often lack important features like taxon interactions, species level identification, information associated with material source, habitat, country, geolocation, etc.
PlutoF offers a third-party curation service to improve the quality of public DNA sequences and their source metadata (read the related ARPHA Preprint in Research Ideas and Outcomes). UNITE Community is using these services to annotate and improve the quality of INSDC rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence datasets. In collaboration with EMBL-EBI, improved or corrected annotations on INSD sequences in PlutoF are fed back to primary repositories through operating the ELIXIR Contextual Data ClearingHouse (CDCH).
Searching and browsing of third-party annotations introduced by the UNITE Community can be done via ELIXIR CDCH RESTful API or using search interfaces of PlutoF and UNITE.
Curations by the UNITE community members
Curations by the UNITE community members
| Number of taxonomic re-annotations | 241 469 |
| Number specifications of EcM lineage | 256 663 |
| Number of specifications of country of collection | 115 868 |
| Number of specifications of host and interacting taxa | 55 140 |
| Number of chimeras excluded | 4 082 |
| Number of low-quality sequences excluded | 9 159 |
| Number of sequences with specimen/culture metadata annotated | 10 619 |
| Number of sequences linked to type specimen/culture | 4 030 |
| Number of sequences flagged with type status | 35 578 |
Curations sent to EMBL-EBI / ENA
| Number of taxonomic re-annotations | 2 565 |
| Number of specifications of location | 6 645 |
| Number of specifications of type status | 289 |
Browse curations
Third-party annotations can be searched and browsed on UNITE Search Pages