Description

This track shows Evolutionary Conserved Regions computed by the Exofish (Roest et al., 2000) program at Genoscope. Each singleton block corresponds to an "ecore"; two blocks connected by a thin line correspond to an "ecotig", a set of colinear ecores in a syntenic region.

Methods

Genome-wide sequence comparisons were done at the protein-coding level between the genome sequences of Fugu (Japanese pufferfish), Takifugu rubripes, and human, Homo sapiens, to detect evolutionarily conserved regions (ECORES). The sequence versions used in the comparison were Fugu (August 2002) and Human (July 2003).

Credits

Thanks to Olivier Jaillon at Genoscope for contributing the data.

References

Roest Crollius H, Jaillon O, Bernot A, Dasilva C, Bouneau L, Fischer C, Fizames C, Wincker P, Brottier P, Quétier F et al. Estimate of human gene number provided by genome-wide analysis using Tetraodon nigroviridis DNA sequence. Nat Genet. 2000 Jun;25(2):235-8. PMID: 10835645