Plant protein-coding gene families: emerging bioinformatics approaches.

Protein-coding gene families are sets of similar genes with a shared evolutionary origin and, generally, with similar biological functions. In plants, the size and role of gene families has been only partially addressed. However, suitable bioinformatics tools are being developed to cluster the enormous number of sequences currently available in databases. Specifically, comparative genomic databases promise to become powerful tools for gene family annotation in plant clades. In this review, I evaluate the data retrieved from various gene family databases, the ease with which they can be extracted and how useful the extracted information is.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Trends in Plant Science

• Publication date

  2011-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tplants.2011.06.003PMID 21757395
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