BOLOS: BLAST & Ontology Linked-hOmologue Stars
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
SyDiG: uncovering Synteny in Distant Genomes
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
The family based variability in protein family expansion
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
New cluster ensemble approach to integrative biological data analysis
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
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Motivation: Reliable identification of protein families is key to phylogenetic analysis, functional annotation and the exploration of protein function diversity in a given phylogenetic branch. As more and more complete genomes are sequenced, there is a need for powerful and reliable algorithms facilitating protein families construction. Results: We have formulated the problem of protein families construction as an instance of consensus clustering, for which we designed a novel algorithm that is computationally efficient in practice and produces high quality results. Our algorithm uses an election method to construct consensus families from competing clustering computations. Our consensus clustering algorithm is tailored to serve the specific needs of comparative genomics projects. First, it provides a robust means to incorporate results from different and complementary clustering methods, thus avoiding the need for an a priori choice that may introduce computational bias in the results. Second, it is suited to large-scale projects due to the practical efficiency. And third, it produces high quality results where families tend to represent groupings by biological function. Availability: This method has been used for Génolevures project to compute protein families of Hemiascomycetous yeasts. The data are available online at http://cbi.labri.fr/Genolevures/fam/ Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at http://cbi.labri.fr/Genolevures/fam/ Contact: macha@labri.fr