Vol 13, Issue 1, 1-12, January 2003
REVIEW
Cross-Species Sequence Comparisons: A Review of Methods and Available Resources
Kelly A. Frazer1,6,
Laura Elnitski2,3,
Deanna M. Church4,
Inna Dubchak5 and
Ross C. Hardison3
1Perlegen Sciences, Mountain View, California 94043, USA;2
Department of Computer Science and Engineering and3
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802,
USA; 4National Institutes of Health, National Library Of
Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda,
Maryland 20894, USA; 5Genome Sciences Department, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
ABSTRACT
With the availability of whole-genome sequences for an increasing
number of species, we are now faced with the challenge of decoding the
information contained within these DNA sequences. Comparative analysis
of DNA sequences from multiple species at varying evolutionary
distances is a powerful approach for identifying coding and functional
noncoding sequences, as well as sequences that are unique for a given
organism. In this review, we outline the strategy for choosing DNA
sequences from different species for comparative analyses and describe
the methods used and the resources publicly available for these
studies.
Footnotes
6 Corresponding author.
E-MAIL kelly_frazer{at}perlegen.com; FAX (650) 625-4510.
Article and publication are at
http://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.222003.

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