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Title

OrFin: A web tool for detection of putative orthologs

 

Authors

Mohit Midha1, Raja Polavarapu1, Potshangbam Angamba Meetei1, Hari Krishnan1, Krishnaveni Mohareer2 & Vaibhav Vindal1*

 

Affiliation

1Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India; 2Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad.

 

Email

vvls@uohyd.ernet.in; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Server

Date

Received July 13, 2012; Accepted July 16, 2012; Published August 03, 2012

 

Abstract

Identification of ortholog is one of the important tasks to understand a novel genome. It helps to assign functional annotations, from one organism to another organism. To identify the putative ortholog, Reciprocal Best BLAST hit (RBBH) method is known to be an efficient approach. OrFin makes use of the same approach to identify pair of orthologous proteins for a given set of sequences of two species. It is a user-friendly web tool which works with user defined parameters to search RBBHs. Results are produced in both html and text format.

 

Availability

http://bifl.uohyd.ac.in/orfin

 

Keywords

Bioinformatics Tool, Ortholog prediction

 

Citation

Midha et al. Bioinformation 8(15): 738-739 (2012)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.