Syntenator 2 – Multiple Gene Order Alignments with a Gene-specific Scoring Function

Syntenator 2

:: DESCRIPTION

Syntenator represents genomes and alignments thereof as partial order graphs (POGs). These POGs are aligned by a dynamic programming approach employing a gene-specific scoring function. The scoring function reflects the level of protein sequence similarity for each possible gene pair. Our method consistently defines larger homologous regions in pairwise gene order alignments than nucleotide-level comparisons. Our method is superior to methods that work on predefined homology gene sets (as implemented in Blockfinder). Syntenator successfully reproduces 80% of the EnsEMBL man-mouse conserved syntenic blocks. The full potential of our method becomes visible by comparing remotely related genomes and multiple genomes. Gene order alignments potentially resolve up to 75% of the EnsEMBL 1:many orthology relations and 27% of the many:many orthology relations.

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::DEVELOPER

BIMSB Bioinformatics Core.

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux / Windows / Mac OsX
  • Java 

:: DOWNLOAD

 Syntenator

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Algorithms Mol Biol. 2008 Nov 6;3:14.
Syntenator: multiple gene order alignments with a gene-specific scoring function.
Rödelsperger  C, Dieterich C.