Ancestor v1.1 – Computational Inference of Ancestral Genomes

Ancestor v1.1

:: DESCRIPTION

Ancestors is a web server allowing one to easily and quickly perform the last three steps of the ancestral genome reconstruction procedure.

::DEVELOPER

Abdoulaye Banire Diallo

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Web Browser

:: DOWNLOAD

 NO

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Bioinformatics. 2010 Jan 1;26(1):130-1. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp600. Epub 2009 Oct 22.
Ancestors 1.0: a web server for ancestral sequence reconstruction.
Diallo AB1, Makarenkov V, Blanchette M.

HaploShare 1.02 – Find Shared Haplotypes among Patients from a common recent Ancestor

HaploShare 1.02

:: DESCRIPTION

HaploShare was designed to find shared haplotypes among patients from a common recent ancestor.

::DEVELOPER

WANLING YANG’S GROUP IN BIOINFORMATICSUniversity of Hong Kong

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows

:: DOWNLOAD

 HaploShare

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Genome Biol. 2015 May 9;16:92. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0662-9.
HaploShare: identification of extended haplotypes shared by cases and evaluation against controls.
Ying D, Sham PC, Smith DK, Zhang L, Lau YL, Yang W.

Ortheus 0.5 – Inference of Ancestor (aka tree) Alignments

Ortheus 0.5

:: DESCRIPTION

Ortheus is a probabilistic method for the inference of ancestor (aka tree) alignments.It is primarily aimed at refining an initial (large-scale) genomic multiple-sequence alignment to create a multiple sequence ancestor alignment.

::DEVELOPER

Benedict Paten (benedict (AT) soe.ucsc.edu)

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/ Linux/ MacOsX
  • Python
  • C Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

   Ortheus

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Genome Res. 2008 Nov;18(11):1814-28. doi: 10.1101/gr.076554.108. Epub 2008 Oct 10.
Enredo and Pecan: genome-wide mammalian consistency-based multiple alignment with paralogs.
Paten B, Herrero J, Beal K, Fitzgerald S, Birney E.

Ancestor – Inference of Ancestral Amino Acid Sequences by the Distance-Based Bayesian Method

Ancestor

:: DESCRIPTION

Ancestor is a software which infer ancestral amino acid sequences from a set of homologous amino acid sequences whose phylogenetic relationships are known.

::DEVELOPER

Jianzhi Zhang

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows

:: DOWNLOAD

  Ancestor

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Zhang J, Nei M (1997)
Accuracies of ancestral amino acid sequences inferred by the parsimony, likelihood, and distance methods.
J Mol Evol 44(Suppl 1):S139-S146

MGRA 1.0 – Multiple Genome Rearrangements and Ancestors

MGRA 1.0.

:: DESCRIPTION

MGRA is a software for reconstruction of phylogenetic trees as well as ancestral genomes and applied it to study the rearrangement history of seven mammalian genomes: human, chimpanzee, macaque, mouse, rat, dog, and opossum. MGRA relies on the new notion of the multiple breakpoint graphs to overcome some limitations of the existing approaches to ancestral genome reconstructions. In particular, we applied \MGRA to analyze the primate–rodent–carnivore controversy in mammalian phylogeny, i.e., the alternative between the primate–rodent and primate–carnivore clades. MGRA provided the rearrangement-based evidence, albeit limited, for the primate–carnivore clade as opposed to the currently favored primate–rodent clade.

::DEVELOPER

Max Alekseyev and Pavel A. Pevzner

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux
  • C++ Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

 MGRA

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Max Alekseyev, Pavel Pevzner
Breakpoint Graphs and Ancestral Genome Reconstructions.”
Genome Res. 2009 May;19(5):943-57. Epub 2009 Feb 13.