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However, accurately detecting all transcript variants remains a long-standing challenge, especially when working with poorly annotated genomes or without a known genome. To address this issue, we have developed a new computational method, TransIntegrator, which enables transcriptome-wide detection of novel transcript variants. For this, we determined 10 Illumina sequencing transcriptomes and a PacBio full-length transcriptome for consecutive embryo development stages of amphioxus, a species of great evolutionary importance. Based on the transcriptomes, we employed TransIntegrator to create a comprehensive transcript variant library, namely iTranscriptome. The resulting iTrancriptome contained 91\u00a0915 distinct transcript variants, with an average of 2.4 variants per gene. This substantially improved current amphioxus genome annotation by expanding the number of genes from 21\u00a0954 to 38\u00a0777. 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