title: A web tool for comparative genomics: G-compass.
abstract: In order to assist the progression of comparative genomics, we have developed a new web-based tool, named G-compass, for browsing and analysis of genome alignments. G-compass utilizes 829,311 pieces of genome alignments between human and mouse that were originally produced for this tool. The quality of the genome alignment set was evaluated by using several statistics. As a result, the alignment set is found to cover approximately 17% of the human genome and 82% of the annotated exons. The averages of nucleotide sequence identity and sequence length are 71.2% and 673.6 bp, respectively. In comparison with public data, it appeared that our data is more expansive and possesses greater genome coverage. G-compass incorporates unique functions such as window analysis of individual alignments. Furthermore, with G-compass and the joint help of H-InvDB, we were able to find highly conserved genomic segments and a human specific antisense transcript candidate, demonstrating that G-compass is useful for facilitating biological discoveries. G-compass is publicly accessible on the WWW at http://www.jbirc.aist.go.jp/g-compass/.
authors.affiliation: Japan Biological Information Research Center, Japan Biological Informatics Consortium, AIST Bio-IT Research Building 7F, 2-42, Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Ryuichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakate
authors.forename: Kanako O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Koyanagi
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsuya
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Habara
authors.forename: Kaori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Yayoi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gojobori
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Imanishi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002877:Chromosomes, Human / Q000235:genetics; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid