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- Title
Cinteny: flexible analysis and visualization of synteny and genome rearrangements in multiple organisms.
- Authors
Sinha, Amit U; Meller, Jaroslaw
- Abstract
Identifying syntenic regions, i.e., blocks of genes or other markers with evolutionary conserved order, and quantifying evolutionary relatedness between genomes in terms of chromosomal rearrangements is one of the central goals in comparative genomics. However, the analysis of synteny and the resulting assessment of genome rearrangements are sensitive to the choice of a number of arbitrary parameters that affect the detection of synteny blocks. In particular, the choice of a set of markers and the effect of different aggregation strategies, which enable coarse graining of synteny blocks and exclusion of micro-rearrangements, need to be assessed. Therefore, existing tools and resources that facilitate identification, visualization and analysis of synteny need to be further improved to provide a flexible platform for such analysis, especially in the context of multiple genomes.
- Publication
BMC bioinformatics, 2007, Vol 8, p82
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-8-82