Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9126831 | Gene | 2005 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
In order to assist the progression of comparative genomics, we have developed a new web-based tool, named G-compass, for browsing and analysis of genome alignments. G-compass utilizes 829,311 pieces of genome alignments between human and mouse that were originally produced for this tool. The quality of the genome alignment set was evaluated by using several statistics. As a result, the alignment set is found to cover approximately 17% of the human genome and 82% of the annotated exons. The averages of nucleotide sequence identity and sequence length are 71.2% and 673.6 bp, respectively. In comparison with public data, it appeared that our data is more expansive and possesses greater genome coverage. G-compass incorporates unique functions such as window analysis of individual alignments. Furthermore, with G-compass and the joint help of H-InvDB, we were able to find highly conserved genomic segments and a human specific antisense transcript candidate, demonstrating that G-compass is useful for facilitating biological discoveries. G-compass is publicly accessible on the WWW at http://www.jbirc.aist.go.jp/g-compass/.
Keywords
GenbankEMBLGenome alignmentRefSeqMSPsnoRNAWWWCGIChrECROrthologous geneDDBJMIRUCSCcommon gateway interfaceNCBIDNA Data Bank of JapanFull-length cDNAsmall nucleolar RNASINEESTDatabaseBioinformaticsexpressed sequence tag(s)Mammalian-wide interspersed repeatLINEUniversity of California Santa CruzEvolutionary biologyShort interspersed elementlong interspersed elementGenome browserThe National Center for Biotechnology InformationURLWorld Wide Web%IDChromosomeguanine and cytosineGHzuniform resource locator
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Authors
Yasuyuki Fujii, Takeshi Itoh, Ryuichi Sakate, Kanako O. Koyanagi, Akihiro Matsuya, Takuya Habara, Kaori Yamaguchi, Yayoi Kaneko, Takashi Gojobori, Tadashi Imanishi,