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ORFanFinder: automated identification of taxonomically restricted orphan genes

Author(s) -

Alex Ekstrom,

Yanbin Yin

Publication year - 2016

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/btw122

Subject(s) - identification (biology) , gene , computational biology , orphan drug , genetics , computer science , biology , bioinformatics , ecology

Orphan genes, also known as ORFans, are newly evolved genes in a genome that enable the organism to adapt to specific living environment. The gene content of every sequenced genome can be classified into different age groups, based on how widely/narrowly a gene's homologs are distributed in the context of species taxonomy. Those having homologs restricted to organisms of particular taxonomic ranks are classified as taxonomically restricted ORFans.

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