EviAnn annotated gene models using long-read transcriptomics dataset

This gene models were annotated using EviAnn software by providing long-read transcriptomics dataset and Zea mays B73 RefGen_v5 genome and protein reference sequence. EviAnn (Evidence Annotation) is a novel genome annotation software created by a team from Johns Hopkins University (Zimin AV, Puiu D, Pertea M, Yorke JA, Salzberg SL. Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 May 12:2025.05.07.652745. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.07.652745. PMID: 40463080; PMCID: PMC12132231.). Its core principle is being purely evidence-based, meaning it relies directly on biological data rather than solely on "ab initio" (from scratch) gene prediction methods.