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ArticleNucleic acids research2009

Pseudofam: the pseudogene families database.

Hugo Y K Lam, Ekta Khurana, Gang Fang, Philip Cayting, Nicholas Carriero, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Mark B Gerstein

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Pseudogenes and Their Genome-Wide Prediction in Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
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  17. Evolution of SH2 domains and phosphotyrosine signalling networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hugo Y K LamProgram in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Ekta Khurana
Gang Fang
Philip Cayting
Nicholas Carriero
Kei-Hoi Cheung
Mark B Gerstein
Yale University · US

Funding

Integrated human genome annotation: generation of a reference gene setU54HG004555 · NHGRI · SANGER INSTITUTE · PI HUBBARD, TIMOTHY JOHN · 2007 to 2012
$11.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS 5U54HG004555-02NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudofam (http://pseudofam.pseudogene.org) is a database of pseudogene families based on the protein families from the Pfam database. It provides resources for analyzing the family structure of pseudogenes including query tools, statistical summaries and sequence alignments. The current version of Pseudofam contains more than 125,000 pseudogenes identified from 10 eukaryotic genomes and aligned within nearly 3000 families (approximately one-third of the total families in PfamA). Pseudofam uses a large-scale parallelized homology search algorithm (implemented as an extension of the PseudoPipe pipeline) to identify pseudogenes. Each identified pseudogene is assigned to its parent protein family and subsequently aligned to each other by transferring the parent domain alignments from the Pfam family. Pseudogenes are also given additional annotation based on an ontology, reflecting their mode of creation and subsequent history. In particular, our annotation highlights the association of pseudogene families with genomic features, such as segmental duplications. In addition, pseudogene families are associated with key statistics, which identify outlier families with an unusual degree of pseudogenization. The statistics also show how the number of genes and pseudogenes in families correlates across different species. Overall, they highlight the fact that housekeeping families tend to be enriched with a large number of pseudogenes.

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Databases, GeneticPseudogenesAnimalsData Interpretation, StatisticalGenomicsHumansInternetProteinsSequence AlignmentProteins

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PMID18957444
PMCPMC2686518
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