ExOrthist: a Tool to Infer Exon Orthologies at Any Evolutionary Distance

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2021 Aug 21

PMID 34416914

Citations 8

Authors

Yamile Marquez

Federica Mantica

Luca Cozzuto

Demian Burguera

Antonio Hermoso-Pulido

Julia Ponomarenko

Scott W Roy

Manuel Irimia

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Abstract

Several bioinformatic tools have been developed for genome-wide identification of orthologous and paralogous genes. However, no corresponding tool allows the detection of exon homology relationships. Here, we present ExOrthist, a fully reproducible Nextflow-based software enabling inference of exon homologs and orthogroups, visualization of evolution of exon-intron structures, and assessment of conservation of alternative splicing patterns. ExOrthist evaluates exon sequence conservation and considers the surrounding exon-intron context to derive genome-wide multi-species exon homologies at any evolutionary distance. We demonstrate its use in different evolutionary scenarios: whole genome duplication in frogs and convergence of Nova-regulated splicing networks ( https://github.com/biocorecrg/ExOrthist ).

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