Microbial genome analysis: the COG approach

MY Galperin, DM Kristensen… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
For the past 20 years, the Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COG) database had been a
popular tool for microbial genome annotation and comparative genomics. Initially created for …

A biologist's guide to Bayesian phylogenetic analysis

FF Nascimento, M Reis, Z Yang - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Bayesian methods have become very popular in molecular phylogenetics due to the
availability of user-friendly software for running sophisticated models of evolution. However …

eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

J Huerta-Cepas, D Szklarczyk, K Forslund… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract eggNOG is a public resource that provides Orthologous Groups (OGs) of proteins at
different taxonomic levels, each with integrated and summarized functional annotations …

Insights into land plant evolution garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha genome

JL Bowman, T Kohchi, KT Yamato, J Jenkins, S Shu… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

OMA orthology in 2021: website overhaul, conserved isoforms, ancestral gene order and more

AM Altenhoff, CM Train, KJ Gilbert… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
OMA is an established resource to elucidate evolutionary relationships among genes from
currently 2326 genomes covering all domains of life. OMA provides pairwise and groupwise …

A multidimensional systems biology analysis of cellular senescence in aging and disease

RA Avelar, JG Ortega, R Tacutu, EJ Tyler, D Bennett… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Cellular senescence, a permanent state of replicative arrest in otherwise
proliferating cells, is a hallmark of aging and has been linked to aging-related diseases …

An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

Y Jiang, TR Oron, WT Clark, AR Bankapur, D D'Andrea… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background A major bottleneck in our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of life
is the assignment of function to proteins. While molecular experiments provide the most …

Discovery of human signaling systems: pairing peptides to G protein-coupled receptors

SR Foster, AS Hauser, L Vedel, RT Strachan… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The peptidergic system is the most abundant network of ligand-receptor-mediated signaling
in humans. However, the physiological roles remain elusive for numerous peptides and …

Inference of phylogenetic trees directly from raw sequencing reads using Read2Tree

D Dylus, A Altenhoff, S Majidian, FJ Sedlazeck… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current methods for inference of phylogenetic trees require running complex pipelines at
substantial computational and labor costs, with additional constraints in sequencing …

The OMA orthology database in 2018: retrieving evolutionary relationships among all domains of life through richer web and programmatic interfaces

AM Altenhoff, NM Glover, CM Train, K Kaleb… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Orthologous Matrix (OMA) is a leading resource to relate genes across many
species from all of life. In this update paper, we review the recent algorithmic improvements …