PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ren-Gang Zhang
AU  - Zhao-Xuan Wang
AU  - Shujun Ou
AU  - Guang-Yuan Li
TI  - TEsorter: lineage-level classification of transposable elements using conserved protein domains
AID  - 10.1101/800177
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 800177
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/10/10/800177.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/10/10/800177.full
AB  - Summary Transposable elements (TEs) constitute an import part in eukaryotic genomes, but their classification, especially in the lineage or clade level, is still challenging. For this purpose, we propose TEsorter, which is based on conserved protein domains of TEs. It is easy-to-use, fast with multiprocessing, sensitive and precise to classify TEs especially LTR retrotransposons (LTR-RTs). Its results can also directly reflect phylogenetic relationships and diversities of the classified LTR-RTs.Availability The code in Python is freely available at https://github.com/zhangrengang/TEsorter.