TreeGeneBrowser: phylogenetic data mining of gene sequences from public databases.
BACKGROUND
Sequence databases represent an enormous resource of phylogenetic information, but there is a lack of tools for accessing that information in order to assess the amount of evolutionary information in these databases that may be suitable for phylogenetic reconstruction and for identifying areas of the taxonomy that are under-represented for specific gene sequences.


RESULTS
We have developed TreeGeneBrowser which allows inspection and evaluation of gene sequence data for phylogenetic reconstruction. This program improves the efficiency of identification of genes that may be useful for particular phylogenetic studies and identifies taxa and taxonomic branches that are under-represented in sequence databases.
Jakobsen
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Australian Genomic Information Centre, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Saleeba
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Poidinger
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Littlejohn
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D000465:Algorithms; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002965:Classification; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015723:Gene Library; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software; D014481:United States