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[[MAKER]] is a portable and easy to configure genome [[:Category:Annotation|annotation]] pipeline that has just become a part of GMOD.  It's purpose is to allow smaller ''eukaryotic'' genome projects to annotate their genomes and to create genome databases. MAKER identifies repeats, aligns ESTs and proteins to a genome, produces ''ab initio'' gene predictions and automatically synthesizes these data into gene annotations having evidence-based quality values. MAKER is also easily trainable: outputs of preliminary runs can be used to automatically retrain its gene prediction algorithm, producing higher quality gene-models on subsequent runs. MAKER's inputs are minimal.  It outputs are in GFF3 or FASTA format, and can be directly loaded into [[Chado]], [[GBrowse]], and [[Apollo]].

MAKER was created and is maintained by the [http://www.yandell-lab.org/ Mark Yandell Lab] at the [http://www.utah.edu University of Utah].

See [[MAKER]] for more on how you can use it to automatically annotate your genomic data.

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