MEGI: a comprehensive annotation dataset of mobile elements for genomic island detection

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62172369, 62302456), and the Special Support Plan for High Level Talents in Zhejiang Province (2021R52019).

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests or financial conflicts to disclose.

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