The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of mobile genetic elements
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An in-progress database devoted to the non-redundant analysis and evolutionary-based classification of mobile genetic elements.
Highlights:
- The GyDB project pursues the goal of analyzing and classifying the non-redundant diversity of mobile genetic elements in the context of the Tree of Life, based on their evolutionary profiles.
- The GyDB is a long-term project that has been arranged in a database in continuous progress, and must be achieved in stages.
- In this first version, we contemplate the eukaryotic Ty3/Gypsy and Retroviridae LTR retroelements.
- Special attention is paid to non-redundant elements displaying a certain degree of distance and how they can be collectively aligned or related, in terms of protein domain architecture, with other lineages and elements.
- We have been able to infer the evolutionary perspectives of the elements we classify based on the complete internal region they commonly display.
Keywords:
- Ty3/Gypsy
- Retroviridae
- LTR
- retroelements
- mobile genetic elements
- MGEs
- MGE
- bacteriophage genomes
- phage genomes
- virus genomes
- transposons
- plasmids
- DNA phages
- lateral gene transfer
- horizontal gene transfer
- prokaryotic mobile genetic elements
- prokaryotic MGEs
- mobile genetic elements classification
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This record last updated: 02-18-2008