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ORFcurator
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In recent years, genomic
sequence data have become available at a staggering rate. The unassembled, and
often incomplete, genome sequences are generally stored as draft sequences
across multiple institutions. These unpublished sequences may contain
information that may be useful to researchers before they are fully annotated
and published. The development of curation tools that are able to mine and
provide sequence data in formats that can be used in subsequent phylogenetic
analyses is essential. Furthermore, the identification of similar,
evolutionarily conserved genes and gene clusters across prokaryotic genomes may
offer valuable insight to evolutionarily maintained biochemical processes. To
facilitate the accurate and rapid identification of conserved gene clusters, we
developed this application, called ORFcurator. This application
automates the process of discovering putative genes from publicly available
genome sequence databases. Additionally, it identifies gene clusters across a
range of organisms stored in a locally curated database. All data output are in
a form that can be easily imported into many popular phylogenetic analysis
software applications.
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