Removal of assembly redundancies produces a more reliable set of gene models.

<p>Gene models were migrated from previous version using RATT <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001455#pntd.0001455-Otto1" target="_blank">[22]</a>. Repeats and sequencing errors in the old assembly resulted in ambiguities and sequences being represented more than once. In the new version, many scaffolds coalesced into one region and hence the gene models contained in them overlap each other. In this example, four supercontigs from the previous version collapsed on an unplaced region of Chromosome 3 in the new assembly. The smaller gene models are now obsolete as they were clearly incomplete annotations and their coding region are part of the exons of the larger gene model.