ArticleBMC bioinformatics2023
CastNet: a systems-level sequence evolution simulator.
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backgroundSimulating DNA evolution has been done through coevolution-agnostic probabilistic frameworks for the past 3 decades. The most common implementation is by using the converse of the probabilistic approach used to infer phylogenies which, in the simplest form, simulates a single sequence at a time. However, biological systems are multi-genic, and gene products can affect each other's evolutionary paths through coevolution. These crucial evolutionary dynamics still remain to be simulated, and we believe that modelling them can lead to profound insights for comparative genomics.
resultsHere we present CastNet, a genome evolution simulator that assumes each genome is a collection of genes with constantly evolving regulatory interactions in between them. The regulatory interactions produce a phenotype in the form of gene expression profiles, upon which fitness is calculated. A genetic algorithm is then used to evolve a population of such entities through a user-defined phylogeny. Importantly, the regulatory mutations are a response to sequence mutations, thus making a 1-1 relationship between the rate of evolution of sequences and of regulatory parameters. This is, to our knowledge, the first time the evolution of sequences and regulation have been explicitly linked in a simulation, despite there being a multitude of sequence evolution simulators, and a handful of models to simulate Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) evolution. In our test runs, we see a coevolutionary signal among genes that are active in the GRN, and neutral evolution in genes that are not included in the network, showing that selective pressures imposed on the regulatory output of the genes are reflected in their sequences.
conclusionWe believe that CastNet represents a substantial step for developing new tools to study genome evolution, and more broadly, coevolutionary webs and complex evolving systems. This simulator also provides a new framework to study molecular evolution where sequence coevolution has a leading role.
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