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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

SOI: robust identification of orthologous synteny with the Orthology Index and broad applications in evolutionary genomics.

Ren-Gang Zhang, Hong-Yun Shang, Richard Ian Milne, Fabricio Almeida-Silva, Hengchi Chen, Min-Jie Zhou, Heng Shu, Kai-Hua Jia, Yves Van de Peer, Yong-Peng Ma

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Ren-Gang ZhangState Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops/Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8028-9208
Hong-Yun ShangState Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops/Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Richard Ian MilneInstitute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, UK.
Fabricio Almeida-SilvaDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Hengchi ChenDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-1173-6622
Min-Jie ZhouState Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops/Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Heng ShuState Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops/Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Kai-Hua JiaInstitute of Crop Germplasm Resources, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8134-5830
Yves Van de PeerDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Yong-Peng MaState Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops/Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7725-3677

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Key Basic Research Programs of Yunnan Province 202101BC070003Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences KIBXD202401Light of West ChinaNational Key Research and Development Program 2022YFF1301700PSESP 2022SJ07X-03
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Abstract

With the explosive growth of whole-genome datasets, accurate detection of orthologous synteny has become crucial for reconstructing evolutionary history. However, current methods for identifying orthologous synteny face great limitations, particularly in scaling with varied polyploidy histories and accurately removing out-paralogous synteny. In this study, we developed a scalable and robust approach, based on the Orthology Index (OI), to effectively identify orthologous synteny. Our evaluation across a large-scale empirical dataset with diverse polyploidization events demonstrated the high reliability and robustness of the OI method. Simulation-based benchmarks further validated the accuracy of our method, showing its superior performance against existing methods across a wide range of scenarios. Additionally, we explored its broad applications in reconstructing the evolutionary histories of plant genomes, including the inference of polyploidy, identification of reticulation, and phylogenomics. In conclusion, OI offers a robust, interpretable, and scalable approach for identifying orthologous synteny, facilitating more accurate and efficient analyses in plant evolutionary genomics.

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Evolution, MolecularGenome, PlantGenomicsSyntenyAlgorithmsPhylogenyPlantsPolyploidy

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