The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of mobile genetic elements

What you can do:
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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