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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 1437-1439Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl116
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- NHGRI NIH HHS [HG02357, IU01HG003156-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Motivation: Mammalian genomes contain many 'genomic fossils' i.e. pseudogenes. These are disabled copies of functional genes that have been retained in the genome by gene duplication or retrotransposition events. Pseudogenes are important resources in understanding the evolutionary history of genes and genomes. Results: We have developed a homology-based computational pipeline ('PseudoPipe') that can search a mammalian genome and identify pseudogene sequences in a comprehensive and consistent manner. The key steps in the pipeline involve using BLAST to rapidly cross-reference potential parent proteins against the intergenic regions of the genome and then processing the resulting raw hits - i.e. eliminating redundant ones, clustering together neighbors, and associating and aligning clusters with a unique parent. Finally, pseudogenes are classified based on a combination of criteria including homology, intronexon structure, and existence of stop codons and frameshifts.
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