Correspondence
Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 1X5 Canada
Genome Biology 2007, 8:402 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-402
Published: 26 February 2007Abstract
The usual BLAST-based methods for assessing gene presence and absence lead to systematic overestimation of within-species gene gain by lateral transfer.
