Alignment and analysis of closely related genomes

Allison Regier, Michael Olson, Scott J. Emrich

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Abstract

Complex strategies have been developed for whole genome alignment of multiple species. In the case of population genomics studies, the sequences being aligned are often very similar.We propose a reference coordinate system that simplifies the task of comparing many closely related genomes while taking into account structural rearrangements.We implemented software to compare a group of three strains of the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae and a group of three strains of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Our simplified representation enables us to leverage existing work on the species while performing fine-grained analysis on the new draft genomes. Further, this approach will easily scale to hundreds of closely related genomes, enabling new analyses in population genomics as additional genomic sequences become available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioinformatics and Computational Biology - First International Conference, BICoB 2009, Proceedings
Pages343-352
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICoB 2009 - New Orleans, LA, United States
Duration: Apr 8 2009Apr 10 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5462 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICoB 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans, LA
Period04/8/0904/10/09

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