LTRclassifier: A website for fast structural LTR retrotransposons classification in plants.

Automatic classification of LTR retrotransposons is a big challenge in the area of massive genomics. Many tools were developed to detect them but automatic classification is somehow challenging. Here we propose a simple approach, , based on recognition followed by analyses () to classify plant LTR retrotransposons in their respective superfamily, and () to provide automatically a basic functional annotation of these elements. The method was tested on various TE databases, and shown to be robust and fast. This tool is available as a web service implemented at IRD bioinformatics facility, http://LTRclassifier.ird.fr/.