McCarthy, Charley G.P. and Fitzpatrick, David A. (2019) Pangloss: A Tool for Pan-Genome Analysis of Microbial Eukaryotes. Genes, 10 (521). ISSN 2073-4425
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Abstract
Although the pan-genome concept originated in prokaryote genomics, an increasing number of eukaryote species pan-genomes have also been analysed. However, there is a relative lack of software intended for eukaryote pan-genome analysis compared to that available for prokaryotes. In a previous study, we analysed the pan-genomes of four model fungi with a computational pipeline that constructed pan-genomes using the synteny-dependent Pan-genome Ortholog Clustering Tool (PanOCT) approach. Here, we present a modified and improved version of that pipeline which we have called Pangloss. Pangloss can perform gene prediction for a set of genomes from a given species that the user provides, constructs and optionally refines a species pan-genome from that set using PanOCT, and can perform various functional characterisation and visualisation analyses of species pan-genome data. To demonstrate Pangloss’s capabilities, we constructed and analysed a species pan-genome for the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica and also reconstructed a previously-published species pan-genome for the opportunistic respiratory pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Pangloss is implemented in Python, Perl and R and is freely available under an open source GPLv3 licence via GitHub.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | pangenomes; bioinformatics; microbial eukaryotes; fungi; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Human Health Institute |
Item ID: | 11048 |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/genes10070521 |
Depositing User: | David Fitzpatrick |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2019 13:44 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Genes |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/11048 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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