MSOAR 2.0: Incorporating tandem duplications into ortholog assignment based on genome rearrangement

dc.contributor.authorShi, Guanqunen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Liqingen
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Taoen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-16T19:25:28Zen
dc.date.available2020-07-16T19:25:28Zen
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.description.abstractBackground: Ortholog assignment is a critical and fundamental problem in comparative genomics, since orthologs are considered to be functional counterparts in different species and can be used to infer molecular functions of one species from those of other species. MSOAR is a recently developed high-throughput system for assigning one-to-one orthologs between closely related species on a genome scale. It attempts to reconstruct the evolutionary history of input genomes in terms of genome rearrangement and gene duplication events. It assumes that a gene duplication event inserts a duplicated gene into the genome of interest at a random location (i.e., the random duplication model). However, in practice, biologists believe that genes are often duplicated by tandem duplications, where a duplicated gene is located next to the original copy (i.e., the tandem duplication model). Results: In this paper, we develop MSOAR 2.0, an improved system for one-to-one ortholog assignment. For a pair of input genomes, the system first focuses on the tandemly duplicated genes of each genome and tries to identify among them those that were duplicated after the speciation (i.e., the so-called inparalogs), using a simple phylogenetic tree reconciliation method. For each such set of tandemly duplicated inparalogs, all but one gene will be deleted from the concerned genome (because they cannot possibly appear in any one-to-one ortholog pairs), and MSOAR is invoked. Using both simulated and real data experiments, we show that MSOAR 2.0 is able to achieve a better sensitivity and specificity than MSOAR. In comparison with the well-known genome-scale ortholog assignment tool InParanoid, Ensembl ortholog database, and the orthology information extracted from the wellknown whole-genome multiple alignment program MultiZ, MSOAR 2.0 shows the highest sensitivity. Although the specificity of MSOAR 2.0 is slightly worse than that of InParanoid in the real data experiments, it is actually better than that of InParanoid in the simulation tests. Conclusions: Our preliminary experimental results demonstrate that MSOAR 2.0 is a highly accurate tool for oneto- one ortholog assignment between closely related genomes. The software is available to the public for free and included as online supplementary material.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grants IIS-0711129 and IIS-0710945 and National Institute of Health grant 2R01LM008991.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-11-10en
dc.identifier.issue10en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/99366en
dc.identifier.volume11en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleMSOAR 2.0: Incorporating tandem duplications into ortholog assignment based on genome rearrangementen
dc.title.serialBMC Bioinformaticsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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