TreeFam -- a curated database of phylogenetic trees of animal gene families
What you can do:
Provides curated phylogenetic trees for all animal gene families, as well as orthologue and paralogue assignments.
Highlights:
- Release 4.0 of TreeFam contains curated trees for 1314 families and automatically generated trees for another 14,351 families.
- We have expanded TreeFam to include 25 fully sequenced animal genomes, as well as four genomes from plant and fungal outgroup species.
- We have also introduced more accurate approaches for automatically grouping genes into families, for building phylogenetic trees, and for inferring orthologues and paralogues.
- The user interface for viewing phylogenetic trees and family information has been improved.
- Furthermore, a new perl API lets users easily extract data from the TreeFam mysql database.
Keywords:
- animal genes
- animal gene phylogeny
- animal gene phylogenetic trees
- homologs genes
- ortholog assignments
- paralog assignments
- gene evolution
- gene families
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: TreeFam: a curated database of phylogenetic trees of animal gene families
2008 Update: TreeFam: 2008 Update
2008 Update: TreeFam: 2008 Update
This record last updated: 04-02-2008