title: Discovery and classification of homeobox genes in animal genomes.
abstract: The diversification of homeobox genes is of great interest to evolutionary and developmental biology. To generate a catalogue of all homeobox genes within species of interest, it is necessary to sequence complete genomes. It is now possible for small research projects and individual laboratories to determine near-complete genome sequences of animal species. We provide bioinformatic methods for assembling draft genome sequences from any animal species, including read filtering and error correction, plus methods for extracting and classifying all homeobox sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK, ferdinand.marletaz@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ferdinand
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marlétaz
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paps
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maeso
authors.forename: Peter W H
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Holland
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D057225:Data Mining; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D018398:Homeodomain Proteins