Title
Eggnog V4.0: Nested Orthology Inference Across 3686 Organisms
Abstract
With the increasing availability of various 'omics data, high-quality orthology assignment is crucial for evolutionary and functional genomics studies. We here present the fourth version of the eggNOG database (available at http://eggnog.embl.de) that derives nonsupervised orthologous groups (NOGs) from complete genomes, and then applies a comprehensive characterization and analysis pipeline to the resulting gene families. Compared with the previous version, we have more than tripled the underlying species set to cover 3686 organisms, keeping track with genome project completions while prioritizing the inclusion of high-quality genomes to minimize error propagation from incomplete proteome sets. Major technological advances include (i) a robust and scalable procedure for the identification and inclusion of high-quality genomes, (ii) provision of orthologous groups for 107 different taxonomic levels compared with 41 in eggNOGv3, (iii) identification and annotation of particularly closely related orthologous groups, facilitating analysis of related gene families, (iv) improvements of the clustering and functional annotation approach, ( v) adoption of a revised tree building procedure based on the multiple alignments generated during the process and (vi) implementation of quality control procedures throughout the entire pipeline. As in previous versions, eggNOGv4 provides multiple sequence alignments and maximum-likelihood trees, as well as broad functional annotation. Users can access the complete database of orthologous groups via a web interface, as well as through bulk download.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1093/nar/gkt1253
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
genomics,phylogeny,internet,genome,proteins
Genome,Annotation,Biology,Genome project,Functional genomics,Genomics,Molecular Sequence Annotation,Cluster analysis,Genetics,Taxonomic rank
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
D1
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
1.69
30
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S Powell11206.39
Kristoffer Forslund21516188.65
Damian Szklarczyk3111749.06
Kalliopi Trachana4773.71
Alexander Roth587448.92
Jaime Huerta-Cepas653729.38
Toni Gabaldón726021.80
Thomas Rattei843631.40
C. J. Creevey930921.31
Michael Kuhn10174189.75
Lars Juhl Jensen112202137.56
Christian von Mering121905119.64
Peer Bork134451694.12