Genome-wide synteny through highly sensitive sequence alignment: Satsuma
Author(s) -
Manfred Grabherr,
Pamela J. Russell,
Miriah Meyer,
Evan Mauceli,
Jessica Alföldi,
Federica Di Palma,
Kerstin LindbladToh
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq102
Subject(s) - synteny , genome , computer science , smith–waterman algorithm , software , genomics , comparative genomics , computational biology , mit license , biology , sequence alignment , genetics , operating system , gene , peptide sequence
Comparative genomics heavily relies on alignments of large and often complex DNA sequences. From an engineering perspective, the problem here is to provide maximum sensitivity (to find all there is to find), specificity (to only find real homology) and speed (to accommodate the billions of base pairs of vertebrate genomes).
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