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Published on: August 15, 2019
OrthoMaM v12: a database of curated single-copy ortholog alignments and trees to study mammalian evolutionary
Rémi Allio1,2, Frédéric Delsuc2, Khalid Belkhir2
1CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Institut Agro, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, 34988, France.
Abstract:
To date, the databases built to gather information on gene orthology do not provide end-users with descriptors of the molecular evolution information and phylogenetic pattern of these orthologues. In this context, we developed OrthoMaM, a database of ORTHOlogous MAmmalian Markers describing the evolutionary dynamics of coding sequences in mammalian genomes. OrthoMaM version 12 includes 15,868 alignments of orthologous coding sequences (CDS) from the 190 complete mammalian genomes currently available. All annotations and 1-to-1 orthology assignments are based on NCBI. Orthologous CDS can be mined for potential informative markers at the different taxonomic levels of the mammalian tree. To this end, several evolutionary descriptors of DNA sequences are provided for querying purposes (e.g. base composition and relative substitution rate). The graphical web interface allows the user to easily browse and sort the results of combined queries. The corresponding multiple sequence alignments and ML trees, inferred using state-of-the art approaches, are available for download both at the nucleotide and amino acid levels. OrthoMaM v12 can be used by researchers interested either in reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships of mammalian taxa or in understanding the evolutionary dynamics of coding sequences in their genomes. OrthoMaM is available for browsing, querying and complete or filtered download at https://orthomam.mbb.cnrs.fr/.
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