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OPTIC

General information

URL: http://genserv.anat.ox.ac.uk/clades
Full name: Orthologous and Paralogous Transcripts in Clades
Description: OPTIC currently provides sets of gene predictions and orthology assignments for three clades: (i) amniotes, including human, dog, mouse, opossum, platypus and chicken (17 443 orthologous groups); (ii) a Drosophila clade of 12 species (12 889 orthologous groups) and (iii) a nematode clade of four species (13 626 orthologous groups).
Year founded: 2008
Last update: 2013-10-04
Version:
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United Kingdom

Classification & Tag

Data type:
DNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Oxford
Address: Le Gros Clark Building, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
City: Oxford
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Country/Region: United Kingdom
Contact name (PI/Team): Andreas Heger
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): andreas.heger@dpag.ox.ac.uk

Publications

17933761
OPTIC: orthologous and paralogous transcripts in clades. [PMID: 17933761]
Heger A, Ponting CP.

The genome sequences of a large number of metazoan species are now known. As multiple closely related genomes are sequenced, comparative studies that previously focussed on only pairs of genomes can now be extended over whole clades. The orthologous and paralogous transcripts in clades (OPTIC) database currently provides sets of gene predictions and orthology assignments for three clades: (i) amniotes, including human, dog, mouse, opossum, platypus and chicken (17 443 orthologous groups); (ii) a Drosophila clade of 12 species (12 889 orthologous groups) and (iii) a nematode clade of four species (13 626 orthologous groups). Gene predictions, multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees are freely available to browse and download from http://genserv.anat.ox.ac.uk/clades. Further genomes and clades will be added in the future.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2008:36(Database issue) | 24 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
4696/6895 (31.907%)
Phylogeny and homology:
204/302 (32.781%)
4696
Total Rank
24
Citations
1.412
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Created on: 2015-07-29
Curated by:
Lina Ma [2018-06-14]
Lin Liu [2016-03-28]