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dc.contributor.authorLu, Guoqingen
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Liyingen
dc.contributor.authorHelikar, Resa M. K.en
dc.contributor.authorRowley, Thaine W.en
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Luwenen
dc.contributor.authorChen, Xianfengen
dc.contributor.authorMoriyama, Etsuko N.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-24T12:14:20Zen
dc.date.available2012-08-24T12:14:20Zen
dc.date.issued2006-12-12en
dc.identifier.citationBMC Bioinformatics. 2006 Dec 12;7(Suppl 4):S18en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/18939en
dc.description.abstractBackground Comparative genomics has become an essential approach for identifying homologous gene candidates and their functions, and for studying genome evolution. There are many tools available for genome comparisons. Unfortunately, most of them are not applicable for the identification of unique genes and the inference of phylogenetic relationships in a given set of genomes. Results GenomeBlast is a Web tool developed for comparative analysis of multiple small genomes. A new parameter called "coverage" was introduced and used along with sequence identity to evaluate global similarity between genes. With GenomeBlast, the following results can be obtained: (1) unique genes in each genome; (2) homologous gene candidates among compared genomes; (3) 2D plots of homologous gene candidates along the all pairwise genome comparisons; and (4) a table of gene presence/absence information and a genome phylogeny. We demonstrated the functions in GenomeBlast with an example of multiple herpesviral genome analysis and illustrated how GenomeBlast is useful for small genome comparison. Conclusion We developed a Web tool for comparative analysis of small genomes, which allows the user not only to identify unique genes and homologous gene candidates among multiple genomes, but also to view their graphical distributions on genomes, and to reconstruct genome phylogeny. GenomeBlast runs on a Linux server with 4 CPUs and 4 GB memory. The online version of GenomeBlast is available to public by using a Web browser with the URL http://bioinfo-srv1.awh.unomaha.edu/genomeblast/.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleGenomeBlast: a web tool for small genome comparisonen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.date.updated2012-08-24T12:14:20Zen
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.rights.holderGuoqing Lu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en
dc.title.serialBMC Bioinformaticsen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-S4-S18en
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