i-ADHoRe 2.0: An improved tool to detect degenerated genomic homology using genomic profiles

Abstract

Summary: i-ADHoRe is a software tool that combines gene content and gene order information of homologous genomic segments into profiles to detect highly degenerated homology relations within and between genomes. The new version offers, besides a significant increase in performance, several optimizations to the algorithm, most importantly to the profile alignment routine. As a result, the annotations of multiple genomes, or parts thereof, can be fed simultaneously into the program, after which it will report all regions of homology, both within and between genomes. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.