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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2017

KinFin: Software for Taxon-Aware Analysis of Clustered Protein Sequences.

Dominik R Laetsch, Mark L Blaxter

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2 authors.

Dominik R LaetschInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom dominik.laetsch@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7887-0186
Mark L BlaxterInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2861-949X

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The field of comparative genomics is concerned with the study of similarities and differences between the information encoded in the genomes of organisms. A common approach is to define gene families by clustering protein sequences based on sequence similarity, and analyze protein cluster presence and absence in different species groups as a guide to biology. Due to the high dimensionality of these data, downstream analysis of protein clusters inferred from large numbers of species, or species with many genes, is nontrivial, and few solutions exist for transparent, reproducible, and customizable analyses. We present KinFin, a streamlined software solution capable of integrating data from common file formats and delivering aggregative annotation of protein clusters. KinFin delivers analyses based on systematic taxonomy of the species analyzed, or on user-defined, groupings of taxa, for example, sets based on attributes such as life history traits, organismal phenotypes, or competing phylogenetic hypotheses. Results are reported through graphical and detailed text output files. We illustrate the utility of the KinFin pipeline by addressing questions regarding the biology of filarial nematodes, which include parasites of veterinary and medical importance. We resolve the phylogenetic relationships between the species and explore functional annotation of proteins in clusters in key lineages and between custom taxon sets, identifying gene families of interest. KinFin can easily be integrated into existing comparative genomic workflows, and promotes transparent and reproducible analysis of clustered protein data.

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SoftwareAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsFilarioideaPhylogenyProteinsProteomicsProteinsbioinformaticscomparative genomicsfilarial nematodesprotein family evolutionprotein orthology

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PMID28866640
PMCPMC5633385

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