| 1. |
- Berglund, Ann-Charlotte, et al.
(författare)
-
InParanoid 6 : eukaryotic ortholog clusters with inparalogs
- 2008
-
Ingår i: Nucleic Acids Research. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0305-1048 .- 1362-4962. ; 36, s. D263-D266
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The InParanoid eukaryotic ortholog database (http://InParanoid.sbc.su.se/) has been updated to version 6 and is now based on 35 species. We collected all available 'complete' eukaryotic proteomes and Escherichia coli, and calculated ortholog groups for all 595 species pairs using the InParanoid program. This resulted in 2 642 187 pairwise ortholog groups in total. The orthology-based species relations are presented in an orthophylogram. InParanoid clusters contain one or more orthologs from each of the two species. Multiple orthologs in the same species, i.e. inparalogs, result from gene duplications after the species divergence. A new InParanoid website has been developed which is optimized for speed both for users and for updating the system. The XML output format has been improved for efficient processing of the InParanoid ortholog clusters.
|
|
| 2. |
- Östlund, Gabriel, 1980-, et al.
(författare)
-
InParanoid 7 : new algorithms and tools for eukaryotic orthology analysis
- 2010
-
Ingår i: Nucleic Acids Research. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0305-1048 .- 1362-4962. ; 38:1, s. D196-D203
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The InParanoid project gathers proteomes of completely sequenced eukaryotic species plus Escherichia coli and calculates pairwise ortholog relationships among them. The new release 7.0 of the database has grown by an order of magnitude over the previous version and now includes 100 species and their collective 1.3 million proteins organized into 42.7 million pairwise ortholog groups. The InParanoid algorithm itself has been revised and is now both more specific and sensitive. Based on results from our recent benchmarking of low-complexity filters in homology assignment, a two-pass BLAST approach was developed that makes use of high-precision compositional score matrix adjustment, but avoids the alignment truncation that sometimes follows. We have also updated the InParanoid web site (http://InParanoid.sbc.su.se). Several features have been added, the response times have been improved and the site now sports a new, clearer look. As the number of ortholog databases has grown, it has become difficult to compare among these resources due to a lack of standardized source data and incompatible representations of ortholog relationships. To facilitate data exchange and comparisons among ortholog databases, we have developed and are making available two XML schemas: SeqXML for the input sequences and OrthoXML for the output ortholog clusters.
|
|
| 3. |
- Östlund, Gabriel, 1980-, et al.
(författare)
-
Network-based Identification of Novel Cancer Genes
- 2010
-
Ingår i: Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. - 1535-9476 .- 1535-9484. ; 9:4, s. 648-655
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Genes involved in cancer susceptibility and progression can serve as templates for searching protein networks for novel cancer genes. To this end, we introduce a general network searching method, MaxLink, and apply it to find and rank cancer gene candidates by their connectivity to known cancer genes. Using a comprehensive protein interaction network, we searched for genes connected to known cancer genes. First, we compiled a new set of 812 genes involved in cancer, more than twice the number in the Cancer Gene Census. Their network neighbors were then extracted. This candidate list was refined by selecting genes with unexpectedly high levels of connectivity to cancer genes and without previous association to cancer. This produced a list of 1891 new cancer candidates with up to 55 connections to known cancer genes. We validated our method by cross-validation, Gene Ontology term bias, and differential expression in cancer versus normal tissue. An example novel cancer gene candidate is presented with detailed analysis of the local network and neighbor annotation. Our study provides a ranked list of high priority targets for further studies in cancer research. Supplemental material is included.
|
|
| 4. |
- Östlund, Gabriel, 1980-, et al.
(författare)
-
Quality criteria for finding genes with high mRNA-protein expression correlation and coexpression correlation
- 2012
-
Ingår i: Gene. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-1119 .- 1879-0038. ; 497:2, s. 228-236
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- mRNA expression is widely used as a proxy for protein expression. However, their true relation is not known and two genes with the same mRNA levels might have different abundances of respective proteins. A related question is whether the coexpression of mRNA for gene pairs is reflected by the corresponding protein pairs. We examined the mRNA-protein correlation for both expression and coexpression. This analysis yielded insights into the relationship between mRNA and protein abundance, and allowed us to identify subsets of greater mRNA-protein coherence. The correlation between mRNA and protein was low for both expression and coexpression, 0.12 and 0.06 respectively. However, applying the best-performing quality measure, high-quality subsets reached a Spearman correlation of 0.31 for expression, 034 for coexpression and 0.49 for coexpression when restricted to functionally coupled genes. Our methodology can thus identify subsets for which the mRNA levels are expected to be the strongest correlated with protein levels.
|
|
