Title
Computational approaches for the analysis of gene neighbourhoods in prokaryotic genomes.
Abstract
Gene order in prokaryotes is conserved to a much lesser extent than protein sequences. Only some operons, primarily those that encode physically interacting proteins, are conserved in all or most of the bacterial and archaeal genomes. Nevertheless, even the limited conservation of operon Organisation that is observed provides valuable evolutionary and functional clues through multiple genome comparisons. With the rapid growth in the number and diversity of sequenced prokaryotic genomes, functional inferences for uncharacterised genes located in the same conserved gene neighborhood with well-studied genes are becoming increasingly important. In this review, we discuss various computational approaches for identification of conserved gene strings and construction of local alignments of gene orders in prokaryotic genomes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1093/bib/5.2.131
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
gene order,operon,phylogenetic analysis,functional signal,local alignment,dot-plot,conserved gene pair
Genome,ENCODE,Gene,Dot plot (statistics),Biology,Gene orders,Operon,Smith–Waterman algorithm,Bioinformatics,Phylogenetics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
2
1467-5463
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.97
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Igor B. Rogozin16110.39
Kira S. Makarova2575.84
Yuri I. Wolf354076.15
Eugene V. Koonin4986239.69