Closed sestaton closed 4 years ago
Hi @sestaton,
I apologize for the delayed response. We had a change in staff and I am just now getting to old issue requests.
Both terms have been added. LARD has been assigned ID SO:0002260 and TRIM has been assigned ID SO:0002261. These have been pushed to the GitHub page and should be visible on the SO Browser within about 24 hours.
Thanks,
Dave
Much appreciated, thanks for the update.
The LARD and TRIM retrotransposons are found in many eukaryotes, and were described about 15 years ago. These elements have been shown to be involved in a number of important phenotypes and I propose new terms for properly annotating and distinguishing them from the extremely abundant LTR retrotransposons.
For LARDs:
For TRIMs:
I am proposing LARD and TRIM as terms to follow the naming of style of MITEs.
For reference, I have methods that I've developed for annotating these elements (in Tephra) and it would useful to give them a standard term. I know people in the TE community would appreciate this also.