Updates to HCOP: the HGNC comparison of orthology predictions tool

Multiple resources currently exist that predict orthologous relationships between genes. These resources differ both in the methodologies used and in the species they make predictions for. The HGNC Comparison of Orthology Predictions (HCOP) search tool integrates and displays data from multiple orth...

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Published in:Briefings in bioinformatics 2021-11, Vol.22 (6)
Main Authors: Yates, Bethan, Gray, Kristian A, Jones, Tamsin E M, Bruford, Elspeth A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Computational Biology - methods
Databases, Genetic
Genomics - methods
Humans
Problem Solving Protocol
Sequence Homology
Software
Vertebrates
Web Browser
Workflow
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Summary:Multiple resources currently exist that predict orthologous relationships between genes. These resources differ both in the methodologies used and in the species they make predictions for. The HGNC Comparison of Orthology Predictions (HCOP) search tool integrates and displays data from multiple ortholog prediction resources for a specified human gene or set of genes. An indication of the reliability of a prediction is provided by the number of resources that support it. HCOP was originally designed to show orthology predictions between human and mouse but has been expanded to include data from a current total of 20 selected vertebrate and model organism species. The HCOP pipeline used to fetch and integrate the information from the disparate ortholog and nomenclature data resources has recently been rewritten, both to enable the inclusion of new data and to take advantage of modern web technologies. Data from HCOP are used extensively in our work naming genes as the Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee (https://vertebrate.genenames.org).
ISSN:1467-5463
1477-4054
DOI:10.1093/bib/bbab155