Faster identification of Transposable Elements in full genome assemblies

This month's ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar will feature a talk by speaker Pío Sierra about a new tool, pantera, which allows faster identification of Transposable Elements in genome assemblies.

🕚 Tuesday, July 8th 2025 - 11:00 CEST

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Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCUd1SIxa8

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Abstracts

Faster identification of Transposable Elements in full genome assemblies

New high quality genomes, together with faster whole genome alignment methods, have opened the possibility of identifying new Transposable Element (TE) families by their polymorphic character in different genome sequences, in contrast to previous methods based on repetitiveness, homology and structural features. We have developed a new tool, pantera, which can leverage this capability and the availability of new genome assemblies to improve our knowledge about transposable elements and the roles that they play in genome evolution. In this presentation I will explain how it works and some results from applying it to several species across the tree of life.

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Speaker

Pío Sierra, Research Assistant, Karam Teixeira Group - Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

I am a computational biologist from Spain that came to bioinformatics a little late, or just in time, depending on how you look at it. I just obtained my PhD and I specialized in analysis of transposable elements.