DeSignate: detecting signature characters in gene sequence alignments for taxon diagnoses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Molecular characters have been added in integrative taxonomic approaches in recent years. Nevertheless, taxon diagnoses are still widely restricted to morphological characters. The inclusion of molecular characters into taxon diagnoses is not only hampered by problems, such as their definition and the designation of their positions in a reference alignment, but also by the technical effort.

Results

DeSignate is a tool for character-based taxon diagnoses that includes a novel ranking scheme. It detects and classifies individual and combined signature characters (diagnostic molecular characters) based on so-called character state vectors. An intuitive web application guides the user through the analysis process and provides the results at a glance. Further, formal d

SUBMITTER: Hutter T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7171811 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature