PlanMine 3.0—improvements to a mineable resource of flatworm biology and biodiversity

A Rozanski, HK Moon, H Brandl… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
A Rozanski, HK Moon, H Brandl, JM Martín-Durán, MA Grohme, K Hüttner, K Bartscherer…
Nucleic acids research, 2019academic.oup.com
Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) are a basally branching phylum that harbours a wealth of
fascinating biology, including planarians with their astonishing regenerative abilities and the
parasitic tape worms and blood flukes that exert a massive impact on human health.
PlanMine (http://planmine. mpi-cbg. de/) has the mission objective of providing both a
mineable sequence repository for planarians and also a resource for the comparative
analysis of flatworm biology. While the original PlanMine release was entirely based on …
Abstract
Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) are a basally branching phylum that harbours a wealth of fascinating biology, including planarians with their astonishing regenerative abilities and the parasitic tape worms and blood flukes that exert a massive impact on human health. PlanMine (http://planmine.mpi-cbg.de/) has the mission objective of providing both a mineable sequence repository for planarians and also a resource for the comparative analysis of flatworm biology. While the original PlanMine release was entirely based on transcriptomes, the current release transitions to a more genomic perspective. Building on the recent availability of a high quality genome assembly of the planarian model species Schmidtea mediterranea, we provide a gene prediction set that now assign existing transcripts to defined genomic coordinates. The addition of recent single cell and bulk RNA-seq datasets greatly expands the available gene expression information. Further, we add transcriptomes from a broad range of other flatworms and provide a phylogeny-aware interface that makes evolutionary species comparisons accessible to non-experts. At its core, PlanMine continues to utilize the powerful InterMine framework and consistent data annotations to enable meaningful inter-species comparisons. Overall, PlanMine 3.0 thus provides a host of new features that makes the fascinating biology of flatworms accessible to the wider research community.
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