SynFind: Compiling Syntenic Regions across Any Set of Genomes on Demand.

ABSTRACT: The identification of conserved syntenic regions enables discovery of predicted locations for orthologous and homeologous genes, even when no such gene is present. This capability means that synteny-based methods are far more effective than sequence similarity-based methods in identifying true-negatives, a necessity for studying gene loss and gene transposition. However, the identification of syntenic regions requires complex analyses which must be repeated for pairwise comparisons between any two species. Therefore, as the number of published genomes increases, there is a growing demand for scalable, simple-to-use applications to perform comparative genomic analyses that cater to both gene family studies and genome-scale studies. We implemented SynFind, a web-based tool that addresses thi

SUBMITTER: Tang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4700967 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature