DIVERGE: phylogeny-based analysis for functional-structural divergence of a protein family.
CONCLUSIONS
DetectIng Variability in Evolutionary Rates among GEnes (DIVERGE) is a software system to study functional divergence of a protein family by detecting site-specific change in evolutionary rate using a multiple alignment of amino acid sequences for a given phylogenetic tree. The program first conducts a statistical test for site-specific rate shifts along the tree, and predicting candidate amino acid residues responsible for functional divergence based on posterior analysis. These results can then be mapped on the 3D protein structure if available.


BACKGROUND
DIVERGE is available free of charge from http://xgu1.zool.iastate.edu/. Distribution packages for both Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems are available, including manual and example files.
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Xun
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Department of Zoology and Genetics, Program of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, IA 50011, USA. xgu@iastate.edu
Vander Velden
Kent
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012984:Software
D011506:Proteins