Algorithm of OMA for large-scale orthology inference.
Journal article

Algorithm of OMA for large-scale orthology inference.

  • 2008-12-06
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  • BMC bioinformatics. - 2008
English BACKGROUND
OMA is a project that aims to identify orthologs within publicly available, complete genomes. With 657 genomes analyzed to date, OMA is one of the largest projects of its kind.


RESULTS
The algorithm of OMA improves upon standard bidirectional best-hit approach in several respects: it uses evolutionary distances instead of scores, considers distance inference uncertainty, includes many-to-many orthologous relations, and accounts for differential gene losses. Herein, we describe in detail the algorithm for inference of orthology and provide the rationale for parameter selection through multiple tests.


CONCLUSION
OMA contains several novel improvement ideas for orthology inference and provides a unique dataset of large-scale orthology assignments.
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