EGN: a wizard for construction of gene and genome similarity networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasingly, similarity networks are being used for evolutionary analyses of molecular datasets. These networks are very useful, in particular for the analysis of gene sharing, lateral gene transfer and for the detection of distant homologs. Currently, such analyses require some computer programming skills due to the limited availability of user-friendly freely distributed software. Consequently, although appealing, the construction and analyses of these networks remain less familiar to biologists than do phylogenetic approaches.

Results

In order to ease the use of similarity networks in the community of evolutionary biologists, we introduce a software program, EGN, that runs under Linux or MacOSX. EGN automates the reconstruction of gene and genome networks from

SUBMITTER: Halary S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3727994 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature