AUGUSTUS Forum

just a quick follow-up: in the 2004 paper by Mario Stanke "AUGUSTUS: a web server for gene finding in eukaryotes" I read that single-gene training sets were used to estimate parameters. So, what exactly are these single-gene training sets? Are these highly accurate/manually curated genes n...

I have a question about the config files for the built-in species. What was the general strategy to generate/train these? I.e. did it involve high quality genbank files, genome contigs, RNAseq, proteome, ESTs, or a combination of these? I'm curious what would be the ideal data to train Augustus as v...