Multi-species sequence comparison: the next frontier in genome annotation
1 Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
2 Perlegen Sciences, 2021 Stierlin Ct., Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Genome Biology 2003, 4:122 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-122
Published: 27 November 2003Abstract
Multi-species comparisons of DNA sequences are more powerful for discovering functional sequences than pairwise DNA sequence comparisons. Most current computational tools have been designed for pairwise comparisons, and efficient extension of these tools to multiple species will require knowledge of the ideal evolutionary distance to choose and the development of new algorithms for alignment, analysis of conservation, and visualization of results.
