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调整不确定性和基因组分析
Karen M Wong1, Marc A Suchard, John P Huelsenbeck
1Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 26, 2008
概括
基因组数据分析的统计方法忽略了序列对齐的不确定性. 这可能导致不同的对齐方法在比较基因组学研究中产生相互矛盾的结论.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
背景情况:
- 目前用于基因组数据分析的统计方法假设序列对齐是准确的.
- 这种假设在比较基因组学中经常被违反,在那里分析了成千上万的基因,其中许多很难对齐.
研究的目的:
- 调查序列对齐不确定性对比基因组学分析的影响.
- 为了证明这种不确定性如何影响研究结论.
主要方法:
- 利用了七种酵母菌种的基因组数据.
- 应用了基因组数据分析的标准统计方法.
主要成果:
- 序列对齐的不确定性被证明在比较基因组学中引发了重大问题.
- 不同的对齐方法在应用于同一数据集时产生了不同的结论.
结论:
- 在比较基因组学中,考虑序列对齐不确定性至关重要.
- 忽视这种不确定性可能会导致不可靠或矛盾的发现.
