Database of Homologous Sequences from Ensembl Complete Genomes
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HOMOLENS
HOMOLENS is a database of homologous genes from Ensembl fully sequenced organisms,
structured under ACNUC sequence database management system.
It allows one to select sets of homologous genes among species,
and to visualize multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees. Thus HOMOLENS
is particularly useful for comparative sequence analysis, phylogeny and
molecular evolution studies. More generaly, HOMOLENS gives an overall view
of what is known about a peculiar gene family.
Content
The genome part of HOMOLENS is directly generated from Ensembl.
The protein part contains the protein coded by the CDS from Ensembl, and the associated protein annotations.
Thus HOMOLENS associates the Ensembl information and the phylogeny of the genes, which is of great interest for phylogenetics and
comparative genomics.
There are some cases where one Ensembl gene is associated to more than one CDS (because one gene may give more than one protein, e.g. via alternative splicing). In that case, we select the longest CDS as the representative of that gene. This is the protein encoded by this CDS that is included in the multiple alignment and in the phylogenetic tree.
The sequences are clustered into families with the same method used for HOVERGEN, described
here.
The present version of HOMOLENS is release 02 (January 2006). It
contains a total of 357,409 sequences protein sequences
(and 533,802 cds) classified in
97,917 families.
Among all the proteins included in this release 286,102 (80%) are classified
into 26,310 families containing at least two sequences and 71,307 (20%) are unique
in their family.
Species from Ensembl:
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Anopheles gambiae - Release 34
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Apis mellifera - Release 34
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Bos taurus - Release 36
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Canis familiaris - Release 34
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Caenorhabditis briggsae - Release 34
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Caenorhabditis elegans - Release 34
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Ciona intestinalis - Release 34
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Danio rerio - Release 34
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Drosophila melanogaster - Release 34
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Fugu rubripes - Release 36
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Gallus gallus - Release 34
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Homo sapiens - Release 34
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Macaca mulatta - Release 34
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Monodelphis domestica - Release 36
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Mus musculus - Release 34
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Pan troglodytes - Release 34
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Rattus norvegicus - Release 34
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Release 34
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Tetraodon nigroviridis - Release 34
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Xenopus tropicalis - Release 34
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WWW access
It is possible to query the database on this server through the
WWW-Query and Cross-Taxa systems. Note that
HOMOLENS is splitted into two databases on this server: HOMOLENSPROT
contains the protein sequences data while HOMOLENSUCL
contains the nucleotide sequences.
FamFetch Graphical User Interface
FamFetch is a graphical interface, specifically developped to query databases of gene families.
FamFetch is based on a client/server architecture. To access
the database you only need to install the FamFetch
application on your computer. This program, written in Java, integrates a GUI that allows
users to easily access and visualize:
- The list of the families available in the database.
- The sequence (protein or nucleotide) of the genes
defining these families.
- The alignments built with these families.
- The phylogenetic trees computed with these alignments.
In FamFetch phylogenetic trees, genes are colored according to the species
from which they come.
The user can modify the color table according to the taxa (any taxonomic level) he is interested in.
This color table is saved in a file of preferences (named .famfetch in UNIX, FamFetch.Prefs in MaOS, HobacFetch.ini in Windows systems).
The color table that is installed by default with FamFetch is dedicated to prokaryotes (for the HOBACGEN database).
You can replace this preference file by the one we have prepared for HOGENOM, that is available here.
Important note: SWISS-PROT entries such as those found in HOMOLENS are
copyrighted. They are produced through a collaboration between the Swiss Institute
of Bioinformatics and the European Bioinformatics Institute. There are no restrictions
on its use by non-profit institutions as long as its content is in no way modified.
Usage by and for commercial entities requires a
license agreement
(See or send an Email to license@isb-sib.ch).
Contact and reference
If you encounter some problems when installing or using HOMOLENS, please
contact Laurent Duret or Simon Penel.
Also we welcome any comments or suggestions on the database and/or its
interface.
Acknowledgements
This project is supported
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