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Bioinformatics Vol. 19 no. 13 2003
Pages 1710-1711
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Applications Note

Detecting putative orthologs

D. P. Wall 1,*, H. B. Fraser 2 and A. E. Hirsh 1

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA and 2 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Received on February 19, 2003 ; revised on March 5, 2003 ; accepted on March 10, 2003

Summary: We developed an algorithm that improves upon the common procedure of taking reciprocal best blast hits (rbh) in the identification of orthologs. The method—reciprocal smallest distance algorithm (rsd)—relies on global sequence alignment and maximum likelihood estimation of evolutionary distances to detect orthologs between two genomes. rsd finds many putative orthologs missed by rbh because it is less likely than rbh to be misled by the presence of a close paralog.

Availability: A Python program and ReadMe file are freely available from: http://charles.stanford.edu/~dennis/research.html

Contact: dpwall{at}stanford.edu

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


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