Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
2-16-2004
Department
Computer Science and Statistics
Abstract
The methods presented here summarize phylogenetic relationships of genomes in visually appealing and informative figures. Dekapentagonal maps depict phylogenetic information for orthologous genes present in five genomes, and provide a pre-screen for putatively horizontally transferred genes. If the majority of individual gene phylogenies are unresolved, bipartition histograms provide a means of uncovering and analyzing the plurality consensus. Analyses of genomes representing five photosynthetic bacterial phyla and of the prokaryotic contributions to the eukaryotic cell illustrate the utility of the methods.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Zhaxybayeva, O., Hamel, L., Raymond, J., & Gogarten, J. P. (2004). Visualization of the phylogenetic content of five genomes using dekapentagonal maps. Genome Biology, 5, R20.
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-3-r20
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© 2004 Zhaxybayeva et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.