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| − | '''Note!'''
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| − | This assignment is currently inactive. Major and minor unannounced changes may be made at any time.
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| | + | ===Hardware=== |
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| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">High performance computing <!-- (... at the bench: GPUs, FPGAs, Clusters) --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">Cloud computing</td></tr> |
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| − | __TOC__
| + | ===Systems and Tools=== |
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| − | <div style="padding: 5px; background: #A6AFD0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; font-size:200%;font-weight:bold;"> | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1 mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Expand subtopics" data-collapsetext="Collapse">[[Unix]] |
| − | Assignment 3 - Multiple Sequence Alignment
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| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Unix system administration]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Unix automation]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Program installation]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[wget]]</td></tr></table> |
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| − | Please note: This assignment is currently inactive. Unannounced changes may be made at any time.
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[Network Configuration]]</td></tr> |
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| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Apache]]</td></tr> |
| − | <!-- '''Please note: This assignment is currently active. All significant changes will be announced on the course mailing list.''' | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[MySQL]]</td></tr> |
| − | --> | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Tools for the bioinformatics lab]]</td></tr> |
| − | | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[GBrowse|GBrowse and LDAS]]</td></tr> |
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| − | <div style="padding: 2px; background: #F0F1F7; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; font-size:125%;color:#444444"> | + | ===Programming=== |
| − | Introduction
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| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[IDE|IDE (Integrated Development Environment)]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[Regular Expressions]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Screenscraping]]</td></tr> |
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| − | ;Take care of things, and they will take care of you.
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1 mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Expand subtopics" data-collapsetext="Collapse">[[Perl]] |
| − | :''Shunryu Suzuki'' | + | <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl basic programming]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Perl hash example]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl LWP example]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Perl MySQL introduction]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl OBO parser]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Perl basic programming]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl programming exercises 1]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Perl programming exercises 2]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl programming Data Structures]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Perl references]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl simulation]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Perl: Object oriented programming]]</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Perl: Ugly programming]]</td></tr></table> |
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| − | A carefully done multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a cornerstone for the annotation of a gene or protein. MSAs combine the information from several related proteins, allowing us to study their essential, shared and conserved properties. They are useful to resolve ambiguities in the precise placement of gaps and to ensure that columns in alignments actually contain amino acids that evolve in a similar context. Therefore we need MSAs as input for
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[BioPerl]]</td></tr> |
| − | * protein homology modeling,
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[PHP]]</td></tr> |
| − | * phylogenetic analyses, and
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Data modelling]]</td></tr> |
| − | * sensitive homology searches in databases.
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">BioPython <!-- (scope, highlights, installation, use, support) --></td></tr> |
| − | | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">Graphical output <!-- (PNG and SVG) --></td></tr> |
| − | In addition, conservation - or the lack of conservation - is a consequence of selection under the constraints imposed by the structural or functional features of a protein. Conservation patterns emphasize domain boundaries in multi-domain proteins, and amino acid propensities are powerful predictors for protein engineering and design.
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[Autonomous agents]]</td></tr> |
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| − | Given the ubiquitous importance of multiple sequence alignment, it is remarkable that by far the most frequently used algorithm is CLUSTAL, a procedure that was first published for the microprocessors of the late 1980s, surpassed in performance many times and shown to be significantly inferior to more modern approaches for sequences with about 30% identity or less.
| + | ===Algorithms=== |
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| | + | <tr class="sh"><td class="l1">Algorithms on Sequences</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Dynamic Programming]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Multiple Sequence Alignment]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Genome Assembly]]</td></tr> |
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| − | In this assignment we will explore MSAs of fungal proteins that are orthologous to yeast Mbp1, and of the APSES domains they contain, and compare several approaches to alignment:
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| − | * A model-based approach (based on the [[Glossary#PSSM| PSSM]] that PSI-BLAST generates)
| + | <tr class="sh"><td class="l1">Algorithms on Structures</td></tr> |
| − | * A progressive alignment - the CLUSTAL algorithm
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[Docking]]</td></tr> |
| − | * A consistency based alignment - T-Coffee, MUSCLE or Probcons
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l2">Protein Structure Prediction <!-- ''ab initio'' --></td></tr> |
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| − | <div style="padding: 2px; background: #F0F1F7; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; font-size:125%;color:#444444"> | + | <tr class="sh"><td class="l1">Algorithms on Trees</td></tr> |
| − | Preparation, submission and due date
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l2">Computing with trees <!-- Bayesian approaches for phylogenetic trees, tree comparison) --></td></tr> |
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| − | Please read carefully. Be sure you have understood all parts of the assignment and cover all questions in your answers! Sadly, we always get assignments back in which people have simply overlooked crucial questions. Sadly, we always get assignments back in which people have not described procedural details. If you did not notice that the above were two different sentences, you are still not reading carefully enough.
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| − | Prepare a Microsoft Word document with a title page that contains:
| + | <tr class="sh"><td class="l1">Algorithms on Networks</td></tr> |
| − | *your full name
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l2">Network metrics <!-- (Degree distributions, Centrality metrics, other metrics on topology, small-world- vs. random-geometric controversy) --></td></tr> |
| − | *your Student ID
| + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l3">[[Dijkstras Algorithm]]</td></tr> |
| − | *your e-mail address
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l3">[[Floyd Warshall Algorithm]]</td></tr> |
| − | *the organism name you have been [[Organism_list_2006|assigned]]
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| − | Follow the steps outlined below. You are encouraged to write your answers in short answer form or point form, '''like you would document an analysis in a laboratory notebook'''. However, you must
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| − | *document what you have done,
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| − | *note what Web sites and tools you have used,
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| − | *paste important data sequences, alignments, information etc.
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| − | '''If you do not document the process of your work, we will deduct marks.''' Try to be concise, not wordy! Use your judgement: are you giving us enough information so we could exactly reproduce what you have done? If not, we will deduct marks. Avoid RTF and unnecessary formating. Do not paste screendumps or other uncompressed images. The size of your submission must remain '''below 1.5 MB'''.
| + | ===Communication and collaboration=== |
| − | | + | <table width="100%" > |
| − | Write your answers into separate paragraphs and give each its title. Save your document with a filename of:
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[MediaWiki]]</td></tr> |
| − | <code>A3_family name.given name.doc</code> | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[HTML essentials]]</td></tr> |
| − | <small>(for example my submission would be named: A3_steipe.boris.doc - and don't switch the order of your given name and family name please!)</small> | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[HTML 5]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">[[SADI|SADI Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[CGI]]</td></tr> |
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| − | Finally e-mail the document to [mailto:boris.steipe@utoronto.ca boris.steipe@utoronto.ca] before the due date.
| + | ===Statistics=== |
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| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Pattern discovery]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">Correlation <!-- (Covariance matrices and their interpretation, application to large problems, collaborative filtering, MIC and MINE) --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">Clustering methods <!-- (Algorithms and choice (including: hierarchical, model-based and partition clustering, graphical methods (MCL), flow based methods (RRW) and spectral methods). Implementation in R if possible) --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">Cluster metrics <!-- (Cluster quality metrics (Akaike, BIC)–when and how) --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Map equation|The Map Equation]] </td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">Machine learning <!-- (Classification problems: Neural Networks, HMMs, SVM..) --></td></tr> |
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| − | Your document must not contain macros. Please turn off and/or remove all macros from your Word document; we will disable macros, since they pose a security risk.
| + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1 mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Expand subtopics" data-collapsetext="Collapse">[[R]] |
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| − | With the number of students in the course, we have to economize on processing the assignments. '''Thus we will not accept assignments that are not prepared as described above.''' If you have technical difficulties, contact the course coordinator.
| + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">R plotting</td></tr></table> |
| − | | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">[[R programming]]</td></tr></table> |
| − | '''The due date for the assignment is Monday, October 22. at 10:00.'''
| + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">R EDA</td></tr></table> |
| − | | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">R regression</td></tr></table> |
| − | <div style="padding: 2px; background: #F0F1F7; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; font-size:125%;color:#444444"> | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">R PCA</td></tr></table> |
| − | Grading
| + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">R Clustering</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">R Classification <!-- Phrasing inquiry as a classification problem, dealing with noisy data, machine learning approaches to classification, implementation in R) --></td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s1"><td class="l2">R hypothesis testing</td></tr></table> |
| | + | <table width="100%"><tr class="s2"><td class="l2">[[Bioconductor]]</td></tr></table> |
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| − | Don't wait until the last day to find out there are problems! Assignments that are received past the due date will have one mark deducted and an additional mark for every full twelve hour period past the due date. Assignments received more than 5 days past the due date will not be assessed. If you need an extension, you '''must''' arrange this beforehand.
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| − | Marks are noted below in the section headings for of the tasks. A total of 10 marks will be awarded, if your assignment answers all of the questions. A total of 2 bonus marks (up to a maximum of 10 overall) can be awarded for particularily interesting findings, or insightful comments. A total of 2 marks can be subtracted for lack of form or for glaring errors. The marks you receive will
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| − | * be divided by two for BCH1441 (graduates).
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| − | In [[Assignment 2]] you retrieved the protein sequences of ''saccharomyces cerevisiae'' [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=protein&val=6320147 '''Mbp1'''] and its orthologue in your assigned organism. In order to produce a multiple sequence alignment, we have to define which sequences we wish to use. Then we need to retrieve the sequences from the database. Finally we have to store the sequences in a format that we can use as input for the alignment programs.
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| − | In your second assignments, you used BLAST to find the best matches to the yeast Mbp1 protein in your assigned organism's genome. To avoid ambiguity, I have generated a reference list of these homologues using the canonical procedure defined below. Note that several departures from the procedure were necessary, as explained below the table; I consider these variations quite normal for a database query. You '''need''' to be familiar with such exceptions and how to deal with them.
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| − | # Retrieved the Mbp1 protein sequence by searching [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Entrez] for <code>Mbp1 AND "saccharomyces cerevisiae"[organism]</code>
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| − | # Clicked on the ''RefSeq tab'' to find the RefSeq ID "<code>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=Protein&list_uids=6320147&dopt=GenPept NP_010227]</code>"
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| − | # Accessed the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast '''BLAST'''] form, followed the link to the list of all genomic BLAST databases and clicked on the (B) icon, next to Fungi to navigate to the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sutils/genom_table.cgi?organism=fungi Fungi Genomic BLAST page.]
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| − | # Pasted "<code>NP_010227</code>" into the ''query field''. Chose ''Protein'' for both Query and Database, kept default parameters but set the ''Filter'' option to ''none''. Clicked on the check-box of each of the fungal species we have considered in the previous assignment. Run BLAST.
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| − | #On the results page, checked the checkbox next to the alignment to select ''the most significant hit from each organism''' we are studying.
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| − | #Clicked on the "Get selected sequences" button.
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| − | #Separately searched for sequences from organisms that were either not included in the lsit or for which no hits were reported. Verified all ambiguous cases, as explained in the notes below.
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| − | #Verified that each of these sequences finds Mbp1 as the best match in the ''saccharomyces cerevisiae'' genome by clicking on each "[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sutils/blink.cgi?pid=68465419 BLink]" (<small>click for example</small>) in the retrieved list. Scrolled down the list to confirm that the '''top hit of a ''saccharomyces cerevisiae'' protein''' is indeed Mbp1 (<code>NP_010227</code>).
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| − | #Obtained UniProt accessions for all sequences, with a single query using the UniProt [http://www.pir.uniprot.org/search/idmapping.shtml ID mapping service]. This service accepts a comma delimited list of RefSeq IDs, GI numbers or GenPept accession numbers and returns a list of Uniprot accession numbers.
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| − | Since it was thus confirmed that each of these sequences is the protein that is most similar to yeast Mbp1 in its respective organism's genome, and that yeast Mbp1 is the most similar yeast protein to each of them, the all fulfil the criterion of a '''reciprocal best match''' with yeast Mbp1. Accordingly we can postulate that this list contains the fungal '''orthologues''' to Mbp1.
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><b><i>Organism</i></b></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>CODE</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><b>GI</b></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><b>NCBI</b></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><b>Uniprot</b></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><b>Most similar yeast gene</b></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>ASPFU</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">70986922</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_748947</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q4WGN2_ASPFU </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Aspergillus nidulans</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>ASPNI</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">40739343</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">EAA58533</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q5AYB5_EMENI </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Aspergillus terreus</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>ASPTE</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">115391425</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_001213217</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q0CQJ5_ASPTN </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>CANAL</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">46444933</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">EAL04204</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q5ANP5_CANAL </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>CANGL</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_445458</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q6FWD6_CANGA </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>COPCI</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">116501415</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">EAU84310</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> N.A. </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Cryptococcus neoformans</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>CRYNE</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">134110416</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_776035</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q5KHS0_CRYNE </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <tr style="background: #E9EBF3;">
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Debaryomyces hansenii</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>DEBHA</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">50420495</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_458784</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q6BSN6_DEBHA </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Eremothecium gossypii</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>EREGO</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">45199118</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">NP_986147</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q752H3_ASHGO </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Gibberella zeae</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>GIBZE</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">46116756</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_384396</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> UPI000023DBF3 </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Kluyveromyces lactis</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>KLULA</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">50308375</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_454189</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> MBP1_KLULA </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <tr style="background: #E9EBF3;">
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Magnaporthe grisea</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>MAGGR</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">74274844</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">ABA02072 </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q3S405_MAGGR </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1*</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Neurospora crassa</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>NEUCR</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">157070373</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">EAA33731</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> ''Q7SBG9'' </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <tr style="background: #E9EBF3;">
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Pichia stipitis</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>PICST</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">149388844</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">EAZ62798</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> A3GHD6_PICST </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>SACCE</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">6320147 </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">NP_010227</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> MBP1_YEAST </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <tr style="background: #E9EBF3;">
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>SCHPO</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">19113944</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">NP_593032</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> RES2_SCHPO </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <tr style="background: #FFFFFF;">
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Ustilago maydis</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>USTMA</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">46101867</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">EAK87100</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q4P117_USTMA </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><i>Yarrowia lipolytica</i></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><code>YARLI</code></td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">50545439</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">XP_500257</td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> Q6CGF5_YARLI </td>
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| − | <td style="border-right:1px solid #AAAAAA; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;">Mbp1</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| | + | ===Applications=== |
| | + | <table width="100%" > |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[Data integration]] <!-- Add BioMart: Biodata integration, and data-mining of complex, related, descriptive data --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">Text mining <!-- (Use cases, tasks and metrics, taggers, vocabulary mapping, Practicals: R-support, Python/Perl support, others...) --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">[[HMMER]]</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">High-throughput sequencing</td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s1"><td class="l1">Functional annotation <!-- GFF --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr class="s2"><td class="l1">Microarray analysis <!-- (... in R: differential expression and multiple testing; Loading and normalizing data, calculating differential expression, LOWESS, the question of significance, FWERs: Bonferroni and FDR; SAM and LIMMA) --></td></tr> |
| | + | <tr><td class="sp"> </td></tr> |
| | </table> | | </table> |
| | + | </td></tr></table> |
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| − | <small>Table of yeast Mbp1 orthologues in genome-sequenced fungi. Columns from left to right: Systematic name, organism code (simply a string that lets us identify the organism in alignments), GI number, RefSeq ID (if existing) or GenPept accession, Uniprot accession, most similar yeast protein.
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| − | Note: ''Coprinopsis cinerea'' accession numbers are not yet in UniProt.
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| − | Note: For ''Giberella zeae'' and ''Magnaporthe grisea'', the protein BLAST search had to go through the entire '''nr''' database, by entering an organism restriction, since genomic BLAST was not enabled.
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| − | Note: For ''Giberella zeae'' XP_384396 no UniProt ID was returned as cross-reference. EBI-BLAST retrieved FG04220 which is largely identical, except for short stretches that are absent in GenPept: apparently UniProt has a different gene-model for this protein.
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| − | Note: The ''Neurospora crassa'' protein EAA33731 has no direct cross-reference in UniProt. The closest match is Q7SBG9 which is largely identical, except for short stretches that are absent in GenPept: apparently UniProt has a different gene-model for this protein.
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| − | Note: The ''Magnaporthe grisea'' protein ABA02072 has greater local C-terminal similarity to the yeast protein Swi6 than to Mbp1, whereas the N-terminal APSES domain is most similar to yeast Mbp1. However a '''global''' Needleman-Wunsch alignment (BLOSUM 30, gaps: 8.0/1.0) shows greater '''overall''' similarity to yeast Mbp1 than to Swi6. Accordingly I consider this an orthologue to Mbp1 even though its database annotation calls ABA02072 the ''M. grisea'' Swi6 homologue.
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| − | Note: For ''Pichia stipitis'', BLAST finds two very similar sequences in GenPept as candidate Mbp1 orthologues; the RefSeq sequence XP_001386821.1 is translated according to the standard code, the EMBL generated entry EAZ62798.2 is translated according to the alternative nuclear code [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi?mode=c#SG12 '''12''']. The question had to be considered which translation appears to be correct. This requires looking at the conservation of the residues in question in the BAST alignment.
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| − | Note: The ''Ustilago maydis'' protein EAK87100 is only the second-best hit in the original BLAST list, however local optimal alignment (EMBOSS water) shows a much higher percentage of identity to yeast Mbp1 in the APSES domain than the top BLAST hit EAK86587 and global alignment (after trimming the N- and C- terminal extensions, respsectively) also shows a slightly higher degree of similarity for EAK87100 than EAK86587. Accordingly, EAK87100 is considered the Mbp1 orthologue, even though it is the second highest hit according to BLAST. This emphasizes the fact that optimal sequence alignments are not entirely equivalent to BLAST alignments.
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| − | Our second task is to obtain all FASTA sequences based on a list of identifiers and to save them in a format in which we can use them as input for other programs or services. This is easy: we simply paset all GI numbers as a comma separated list into the Entrez search form and select Display FASTA, send to Text on the results page, then save the contents as a Text file.
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| − | *We have applied the "reciprocal best match criterion" to assert that these sequences are '''orthologues to yeast Mbp1''' and this is how orthologues are commonly defined comnputationally. Briefly explain why this criterium will distinguish between orthologues and paralogues (when no genes have been lost). Consider at least the following three cases (''i'') a gene duplication has occurred before a speciation event, (''ii'') a gene duplication in the query organism has occurred after a speciation event. (''iii'') a gene duplication in the target organism has occurred after a speciation event. Use sketches to illustrate the cases.
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| − | *Review the resulting multi-FASTA file for the [[All_Mbp1_proteins|'''Mbp1 proteins (linked here)''']] and make sure you understand the procedure that led to it. Depending on your personal learning style you may either carefully review the described procedure, reproduce key steps of the procedure, reproduce the entire procedure paying special attention to the problem cases discussed in the notes, or develop your own procedure. Whatever you do, you must be confident in the end that you could have produced the same input file. (1 mark)<br>
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| − | ===(1.2) Input for APSES domain sequences (1 mark)===
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| − | Mbp1 orthologues are not the only proteins that contain APSES domains. In order to find all the rest, a PSI BLAST search was performed using the yeast Mbp1 APSES domain as query. From the list of hits, the APSES domains were extracted and summarized in a file.
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| − | *Review the resulting file for the [[All_APSES_domains|'''APSES domains''']] and make sure you understand the procedure that led to it. Summarize the key steps of the procedure in point form. (1 mark)
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| − | ===(1.3) Orthologues (1 mark)===
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| − | For '''one''' of the the APSES domains in your organism, determine which yeast APSES domain (if any) it is orthologous to:
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| − | # Choose at random one of the [[All_APSES_domains|APSES domains]] from your organism (but not one labelled with Mbp1) and copy it's [[All_APSES_domains|sequence]] into the input window of a [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/ BLAST] search.
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| − | # Restrict the BLAST search to RefSeq sequences in ''saccharomyces cerevisiae''.
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| − | # Run the search and determine the gene name of the best hit. (This is the best match.)
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| − | # Find the sequence of your best hit's APSES domain in the [[All_APSES_domains|sequence file]]. (Since the file contains all of them, your hit has to be in there, unless you found a non-RefSeq sequence).
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| − | # Copy that sequence (i.e. use the exact sequence from the file, not only the possibly truncated sequence from the BLAST results alignment) and perform the same kind of BLAST search, this time restricted to your organism instead of yeast. (This finds the reciprocal match.)
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| − | * Document the process and report briefly what you have found on the forward and on the reverse search. Does the gene you have chosen fulfill the ''reciprocal best match'' criterium for orthology with a yeast gene? (1 mark)
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| − | Actually performing multiple sequence alignements used to involve downloading and installing software on your own computer. While most tools were available on the Web in principle, many groups have restricted the total number of sequences or the total number of characters to be aligned. The EBI however offers three of the most commonly used tools with few limitations and it was possible to run MSAs for all Mbp1 orthologues jointly.
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| − | I used the following three servers:
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| − | * [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/ '''CLUSTAL-W'''] is a progressive alignment program, it is the most popular, most widely referenced MSA algorithm, it is reasonably fast and easy to use. But alignment errors that are made early can't get corrected and thus it is prone to misalignments on sets of sequences that have poor (<30% ID) local similarity. It is no longer considered state-of-the-art for carefully done alignments.
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| − | * [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/muscle/ '''MUSCLE'''] essentially starts out from a CLUSTAL like alignment as a draft, then identifies similar groups of sequences from which it calculates profiles, it then re-aligns the group to the profile. This procedure is iterated.
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| − | * [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/t-coffee/ '''T-Coffee'''] is one of my favourites - the tradeoffs appear to be especially well balanced. It too starts from a set of pairwise global alignments, like CLUSTAL, then additionally calculates sets of best local alignments. Global and local alignments are then combined to a similarity matrix and based on this matrix a guide-tree is constructed. This determines the order of steps in which sequences are added to the multiple alignment. A nice feature of T-Coffee is color coded output that allows you to quickly judge the local reliability of the alignment.
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| − | We shall perform multiple sequence alignments for all 16 Mbp1 orthologues and compare the results. Since the results should look the same for all of you, it was possible to precompute the alignments to save some resources. Of course you are welcome to do this on your own, but it is not required. In fact, since we want to compare the alignments, I have also edited them: I have '''re-sorted the results so that the sequences appear in the same order in each case'''. Only CLUSTAL provides the option to order the output in the same way as the input, the other two programs order the output so that adjacent sequences are most similar. This is useful, because it emphasizes sequence features, but it makes it impossibly tedious to compare alignments.
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| − | [[Image:A03_01.jpg|frame|none|Assignment 3, Figure 01<br>
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| − | The guide tree computed by CLUSTAL-W for the 16 Mbp1 orthologue sequences. This tree is based on a matrix of pairwise distances. Sequences in the multiple alignments have been rearranged into the same order as they apppear in this diagram.
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| − | The result files are linked here:
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| − | * [[All_Mbp1_CLUSTAL|Mbp1 proteins '''CLUSTAL''' aligned]]
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| − | * [[All_Mbp1_MUSCLE|Mbp1 proteins '''MUSCLE''' aligned]]
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| − | * [[All_Mbp1_T-COFFEE|Mbp1 proteins '''T-Coffee''' aligned (text version)]] and [[All_Mbp1_T-COFFEE_scores| (coloured according to scores)]]
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| − | Globally speaking, the alignments are quite similar. Let's first look at the common themes, before we discuss details of the results. The [[All_Mbp1_T-COFFEE_scores| (score-colored T-COFFEE alignment)]] is well suited to look at general relationships between the sequences, since outliers can be easily identified. For example, if one of the sequences would have a low-scoring domain, aligning poorly to the others of the group, it may be possible that that domain has been acquired in a separate evolutionary event and is not homologous to all others. We would notice an isolated stretch of poorly alignable sequence, i.e. it should be coloured wihth a low score in a set of otherwise high-scoring segments. Also a gene may have acquired significant lengths of N- or C-terminal extensions which may not be homologous (unless they are the reuslt of an internal duplication).
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| − | *Review the [[All_Mbp1_T-COFFEE_scores| (score-colored T-Coffee alignment)]]. Based on this alignment, how do you feel about our initial assertion that these proteins should be considered orthologous? (Answer briefly, but with reference to specific evidence in the alignment. Note that this is not about the general level of conservation, but about whether significant segments do not appear related/alignable at all.) (1 mark)
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| − | ==(3) Mbp1 orthologues: analysis of full length MSAs==
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| − | What do we mean by a ''good'' versus a ''poor'' multiple sequence alignment?
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| − | Let us first consider some of the features we have defined in the second assignment (and some structural features I have added). Here is an annotation of the yeast Mbp1 sequence. It was compiled with the following procedure.
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| − | # Performed [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi '''CDD'''] search with yeast Mbp1 protein sequence. This retrieves alignments of Mbp1 with the APSES and the ANKYRIN domains. These are profile based alignment and I would consider them more reliable than pairwise alignments.
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| − | # Performed [http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/ '''SMART'''] search with yeast Mbp1 protein sequence. This retrieved the APSES domain, annotated a number of low-complexity regions and a stretch of coiled coil.
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| − | # Performed a [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/sas/ '''SAS'''] search with yeast Mbp1 protein sequence. This retrieved pairwise alignments with the structures 1MB1 (APSES) and chain D of 1IKN (ankyrin domains of I<sub>kappa</sub>b), together with their respectve secondary structure annotations.
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| − | # Copied GenPept sequence into Word-processor.
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| − | # Transferred annotations of low complexity and coiled-coil regions from SMART.
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| − | # Transferred annotations of APSES seondary structure from SAS (this is a ''direct'' annotation, since the structure 1MB1 has the same sequence as the coressponding parts of the Mbp1 protein). The central helix of the binding region is slightly distorted and SAS annotates a break in the helix, this was bridged with lowercase "h" in the annotation.
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| − | C Coiled coil regions predicted by Coils2 program
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| − | x Low complexity region
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| − | + positively charged residues, oriented for possible DNA binding interactions
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| − | - negatively charged residues, oriented for possible DNA binding interactions
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| − | E beta strand
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| − | H alpha helix
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| − | ETHEKVQGGF GKYQGTWVPL NIAKQLAEKF SVYDQLKPLF DFTQTDGSAS PPPAPKHHHA
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| − | SKVDRKKAIR SASTSAIMET KRNNKKAEEN QFQSSKILGN PTAAPRKRGR PVGSTRGSRR
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| − | VSPSDYITYP SQIATNISRN IPNVVNSMKQ MASIYNDLHE QHDNEIKSLQ KTLKSISKTK
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| − | A '''good''' MSA comprises only columns of residues that play similar roles in the proteins' mechanism and/or that evolve in a comparable structural context. Since it is a result of biological selection and conservation, it has relatively few indels and the indels it has are usually not placed into elements of secondary structure or into functional motifs.
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| − | A '''poor''' MSA has many errors in its columns in the sense that they contain residues that actuallly have diffferent functions or structural roles, even though they may look similar to a scoring matrix. It also may have introduced indels in biologically irrelevant positions, to maximize spurious sequence similarities.
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| − | In order to evaluate the MSAs for our proteins, we will analyze alignments relative to the features we have annotated above.
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| − | ===(3.1) APSES domains (1 mark)===
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| − | The APSES domains in all of our Mbp1 orthologues are highly conserved and a program that would misalign such obvius similarity would not be worth the electrons it computes with.
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| − | *Consider the CLUSTAL, Muscle and T-Coffee alignments of the Mbp1 orthologues. Orient yourselves as to where the APSES domains are located. Briefly note whether the three alignments agree and whether the charged residues in the proposed binding region are wholly or partially conserved. (Refer to the specific residues labelled (+) or (-) in the Mbp1 annotation above). (1 mark) <!-- Sequence variation may indicate variations in binding site -->
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| − | ===(3.2) Ankyrin domains (1 mark)===
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| − | The Ankyrin domains are more highly diverged, the boundaries are less well defined and not even CDD, SMART and SAS agree on the precise annotations. Nevertheless we would hope that a good alignment would recognize homology in that region and that ideally the required indels would be placed between the secondary structure elements, not in their middle.
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| − | *For one of the alignments of your choice, identify the helices in the Ankyrin repeat region of Mbp1. To facilitate this, I have colored the annotated ankyrin helices red in the yeast Mbp1 protein. Briefly state whether the indels are concentrated in regions that connect the helices or if they are more or less evenly distributed along the entire region of similarity. Conclude whether the assertion that ''indels should not be placed in elelements of secondary structure'' has merit in this case, i.e. whether the indels that violate it have strong support from aligned sequence motifs. (1 mark)
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| − | ===(3.3) Other features (2 marks)===
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| − | Aligning functional features like ''coiled coil domains'' or ''intrinsically disorderd regions'' is even more difficult, since this is to a large degree a property of the amino acid composition, not as much the precise sequence. Thus we would expect alignment algorithms to have difficulty to detect the correspondence between sequences in such regions. I have marked the four low complexity regions of the yeast Mbp1 sequence with '''bold''' letters in all three alignments.
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| − | *Copy the Mbp1 sequence from your organism from the multi-FASTA files and run a [http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/ SMART] sequence analysis: paste your sequence (or the Uniprot accession number), check only the checkbox for detecting '''intrinsic protein disorder''' and click "Sequence SMART". Locate the segments of '''low complexity''' for your sequence (they are in the lower part of the results page since they overlap with disordered segements). Find the corresponding positions for your sequence in '''one''' of the multiple sequence alignments. Briefly describe the situation: state whether these segments are found in the same general region, in the same detailed location, or perhaps even conserved in sequence, when you compare them to the ''saccharomyces cerevisiae'' sequence. (1 mark)
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| − | * Briefly discuss whether this observation should lead you to conclude that disorder in these proteins appears to be a conserved feature, i.e. that is selected for in evolution. (1 mark)
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| − | *Task
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| − | ==(4) APSES domain homologues: analysis of domain MSAs==
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| − | The procedures for obtaining the MSAs for all APSES domains is summarized at the top of the page for each alignment. Read it and make sure you understand what has been done. Three approaches were used:
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| − | * An [[APSES_domains_PSI-BLAST| alignment based on the PSI-BLAST reults]] as an example of a profile-based alignment.
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| − | * A [[APSES_domains_CLUSTAL| CLUSTAL-W alignment]] as an example of our standard, plain vanilla progressive alignment procedure.
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| − | * A consistency based, iterated [[APSES_domains_probcons| alignment using '''probcons''']], as an example of the more modern methods. probcons was used rather than T-Coffee since the EBI server restricts the number of sequences it will accept to 50.
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| − | Comparing the three alignments, we note that they do not agree in detail over large stretches.
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| − | ===(4.1) Manual improvement (1 mark)===
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| − | Often errors or inconsistencies are easy to spot and manually editing an MSA is not generally frowned upon, even though this is not a strictly objective procedure. The main goal is to make an alignment biologically more plausible, usually this means to mimize the number of rare events that we need to postulate for the alignment: move indels into more appropriate positions and/or to emphasize conservation of known functional motifs. Here are some examples for what one might aim for in manually editing an alignment:
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| − | * Reduce number of indels
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| − | From Probcons:
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| − | 0447_DEBHA ILKTE-K<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>T<span style="color:#FF0000;">---</span>K--SVVK ILKTE----KTK---SVVK
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| − | 9978_GIBZE MLGLN<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>PGLKEIT--HSIT MLGLNPGLKEIT---HSIT
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| − | 1513_CANAL ILKTE-K<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>I<span style="color:#FF0000;">---</span>K--NVVK ILKTE----KIK---NVVK
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| − | 6132_SCHPO ELDDI-I<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>ESGDY--ENVD ELDDI-IESGDY---ENVD
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| − | 1244_ASPFU ----N<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>PGLREIC--HSIT -> ----NPGLREIC---HSIT
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| − | 0925_USTMA LVKTC<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>PALDPHI--TKLK LVKTCPALDPHI---TKLK
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| − | 2599_ASPTE VLDAN<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>PGLREIS--HSIT VLDANPGLREIS---HSIT
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| − | 9773_DEBHA LLESTPKQYHQHI--KRIR LLESTPKQYHQHI--KRIR
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| − | 0918_CANAL LLESTPKEYQQYI--KRIR LLESTPKEYQQYI--KRIR
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| − |
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| − | <small>Gaps marked in red were moved. The sequence similarity in the alignment does not change considerably, however the total number of indels in this excerpt is reduced to 13 from the original 22</small>
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| − | * Move indels to more plausible position
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| − | From CLUSTAL:
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| − | 4966_CANGL MKHEKVQ------GGYGRFQ---GTW MKHEKV<span style="color:#00AA00;">Q</span>------GGYGRFQ---GTW
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| − | 1513_CANAL KIKNVVK------VGSMNLK---GVW KIKNVV<span style="color:#00AA00;">K</span>------VGSMNLK---GVW
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| − | 6132_SCHPO VDSKHP<span style="color:#FF0000;">-</span>----------<span style="color:#FF0000;">Q</span>ID---GVW -> VDSKHP<span style="color:#00AA00;">Q</span>-----------ID---GVW
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| − | 1244_ASPFU EICHSIT------GGALAAQ---GYW EICHSI<span style="color:#00AA00;">T</span>------GGALAAQ---GYW
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| − | <small>The two characters marked in red were swapped. This does not change the number of indels but places the "Q" into a a column in which it is more highly conserved (green). Progressive alignments are especially prone to this type of error.</small>
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| − | * Conserve motifs
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| − | From CLUSTAL:
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| − | 6166_SCHPO --DKR<span style="color:#FF0000;">V</span>A---<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>LWVPP --DKR<span style="color:#FF0000;">V</span>A--<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>-LWVPP
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| − | XBP1_SACCE GGYIK<span style="color:#FF0000;">I</span>Q---<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>TWLPM GGYIK<span style="color:#FF0000;">I</span>Q--<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>-TWLPM
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| − | 6355_ASPTE --DE<span style="color:#FF0000;">I</span>A<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>---NVWISP -> ---DE<span style="color:#FF0000;">I</span>A--<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>NVWISP
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| − | 5262_KLULA GGYIK<span style="color:#FF0000;">I</span>Q---<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>TWLPY GGYIK<span style="color:#FF0000;">I</span>Q--<span style="color:#FF0000;">G</span>-TWLPY
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| − | <small>The first of the two residues marked in red is a conserved, solvent exposed hydrophobic residue that may mediate domain interactions. The second residue is the conserved glycine in a beta turn that cannot be mutated without structural disruption. Changing the position of a gap and insertion in one sequence improves the conservation of both motifs.</small>
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| − | Please consider the following excerpts from the alignments:
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| − | PSI-BLAST
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| − | '''MBP1_SACCE SIMKRKKDDWVNATHILKA------A----------NFA--------KAKRTR-----'''
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| − | 2599_ASPTE -IMWDYNIGLVRTTPLFRS------Q----------NYS--------KTTPAK-----
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| − | 9773_DEBHA -IIWDYETGFVHLTGIWKA------S----------INDEVNTHRNLKADIVK-----
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| − | 0918_CANAL -VIWDYETGWVHLTGIWKA------SLTIDGSNVSPSHL--------KADIVK-----
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| − | 9901_DEBHA -ILRRVQDSYINISQLF--------SILLKIG----HLS--------EAQLTN-----
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| − | 7766_ASPNI -LMRRSKDGYVSATGMFKI------A-----------FP--------WAKLEEERSER
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| − | 5459_GIBZE -LMRRSYDGFVSATGMFKASFPYAEA----------SDE--------DAERKY-----
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| − | 2267_NEUCR -LMRRSQDGYISATGMFKA------TFPYASQ----EEE--------EAERKY-----
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| − | 3510_ASPFU -LMRRSKDGYVSATGMFKI------A-----------FP--------WAK--------
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| − | 3762_MAGGR -LMRRSSDGYVSATGMFKATFPYADA----------EDE--------EAERNY-----
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| − | 3412_CANAL -VLRRVQDSFVNVTQLFQI------LIKLE------VLP--------TSQVDN-----
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| − | CLUSTAL
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| − | '''MBP1_SACCE SIMKRKKDDWVNATHILKAAN----------FAKAKRTRILE----------KEVLKETHE'''
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| − | 2599_ASPTE -IMWDYNIGLVRTTPLFRSQ----------NYSKTTPAKVLDAN--------P-GLREISH
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| − | 9773_DEBHA -IIWDYETGFVHLTGIWKASIN-DEVNTHR-NLKADIVKLLEST--------PKQYHQHIK
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| − | 0918_CANAL -VIWDYETGWVHLTGIWKASLTIDGSNVSPSHLKADIVKLLEST--------PKEYQQYIK
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| − | 9901_DEBHA -ILRRVQDSYINISQLFSILL----------KIGHLSEAQLTNFLNNEILTNTQYLSSGGS
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| − | 7766_ASPNI -LMRRSKDGYVSATGMFKIAF----------PWAKLEEERSE----------REYLKTRPE
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| − | 5459_GIBZE -LMRRSYDGFVSATGMFKASF----------PYAEASDEDAE----------RKYIKSLPT
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| − | 2267_NEUCR -LMRRSQDGYISATGMFKATF----------PYASQEEEEAE----------RKYIKSIPT
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| − | 3510_ASPFU -LMRRSKDGYVSATGMFKIAF----------PWAKLEEEKAE----------REYLKTREG
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| − | 3762_MAGGR -LMRRSSDGYVSATGMFKATF----------PYADAEDEEAE----------RNYIKSLPA
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| − | 3412_CANAL -VLRRVQDSFVNVTQLFQILI----------KLEVLPTSQVDNYFDNEILSNLKYFGSSSN
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| − | Probcons
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| − | '''MBP1_SACCE SIMKRKKDDWVNATHILKAANF----AKA----------KRTRILEKE-V-LKETH--E'''
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| − | 2599_ASPTE -IMWDYNIGLVRTTPLFRSQNY----SKT----------TPAKVLDAN-PGLREIS--H
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| − | 9773_DEBHA -IIWDYETGFVHLTGIWKASIN----DEV--NTHRNLKADIVKLLESTPKQYHQHI--K
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| − | 0918_CANAL -VIWDYETGWVHLTGIWKASLT----IDGSNVSPSHLKADIVKLLESTPKEYQQYI--K
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| − | 9901_DEBHA -ILRRVQDSYINISQLFSILLKIGHLSEA----------QLTNFLNNE-I-LTNTQYLS
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| − | 7766_ASPNI -LMRRSKDGYVSATGMFKIAFP----WAK----------LEEERSERE-Y-LK-----T
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| − | 5459_GIBZE -LMRRSYDGFVSATGMFKASFP----YAE----------ASDEDAERK-Y-IK-----S
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| − | 2267_NEUCR -LMRRSQDGYISATGMFKATFP----YAS----------QEEEEAERK-Y-IK-----S
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| − | 3510_ASPFU -LMRRSKDGYVSATGMFKIAFP----WAK----------LEEEKAERE-Y-LK-----T
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| − | 3762_MAGGR -LMRRSSDGYVSATGMFKATFP----YAD----------AEDEEAERN-Y-IK-----S
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| − | 3412_CANAL -VLRRVQDSFVNVTQLFQILIKLEVLPTS----------QVDNYFDNE-I-LSNLKYFG
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| − | *In any '''one''' of these excerpts, find at least one example where the alignment could be manually improved. Show the original version, the improved version and highlight the changes in red. (1 mark)
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| − | The fact that such improvements usually are not hard to find teaches us to be cautious with the results. Not in all cases will lack of conservation in a particular column mean that a residue has changed in evolution - sometimes this is simply a consequence of misalignment. MSAs can only take sequence information into account, while we may have additional information on structural and functional conservation patterns. This may include secondary structure (gaps should be moved out of regions of secondary structure, where possible), structurally required residues (expected to be conserved accross all structurally similar sequences) and functionally conserved residues (expected to have a high likelyhood of being conserved within groups of orthologues, but varying between orthologues and paralogues).
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| − | In terms of structural conservation, we expect motif or consistency based alignments to be more accurate since they align to the "big picture". In terms of functional variation we expect progressive alignments to be more accurate, since they align to local similarities.
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| − | ===(4.2) Residue conservation (1 mark)===
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| − | Let us finally interpret the alignments in terms of their biological relevance. I have transferred the ligand-binding annotations for the yeast Mbp1 APSES domain into the multiple sequence alignments by color coding the charged residues that putatively could bind DNA <span style="color:#FF0000;">'''red'''</span> (-) and <span style="color:#0066FF;">'''blue'''</span> (+). Thus these residues label columns in which we expect ''functional'' conservation. I have labeled two residues that are associated with important structural features <span style="color:#00AA33;">'''green'''</span>. These two residues are G75, a mandatory glycine in the third position of a particular type of beta-turn, and W77, a key component of the domain's hydrophobic core. Thus these two residues label columns in which we expect ''structural'' conservation. Let's assume that all the APSES domains fold into similar structures and that they all bind DNA, although not necessarily the same cognate sequence. This should allow you to answer the following questions:
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| − | *Are the patterns of sequence variation for functionally conserved residues compatible with different binding specificities for different APSES domains? State briefly (but with reference to specific residues) what you would expect and what you find.
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| − | *Are the patterns of sequence variation for structurally conserved residues compatible with a common fold of different APSES domains? State briefly (but with reference to specific residues) what you would expect and what you find. (1 mark)
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| − | ==(5) Summary of Resources==
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| − | :* [[Organism_list_2007|Assigned Organisms]]
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| − | :* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast '''BLAST''']
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| − | :* [http://www.pir.uniprot.org/search/idmapping.shtml '''Uniprot ID mapping''' service]
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| − | :* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sutils/blink.cgi?pid=68465419 A '''BLink''' example]
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| − | :* [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/ EBI '''CLUSTAL-W''' server]
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| − | :* [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/muscle/ EBI '''MUSCLE''' server]
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| − | :* [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/t-coffee/ EBI '''T-Coffee''' server]
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| − | :* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi '''CDD''']
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| − | :* [http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/ '''SMART''']
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| − | :* [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/sas/ '''SAS''']
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| − | ;Sequences
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| − | :* [[All_Mbp1_proteins|'''All Mbp1 proteins''']]
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| − | :* [[All_APSES_domains|'''All APSES domains''']]
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| − | ;Alignments
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| − | :'''Mbp1 proteins:'''
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| − | :* [[All_Mbp1_CLUSTAL|Mbp1 proteins '''CLUSTAL''' aligned]]
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| − | :* [[All_Mbp1_MUSCLE|Mbp1 proteins '''MUSCLE''' aligned]]
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| − | :* [[All_Mbp1_T-COFFEE|Mbp1 proteins '''T-Coffee''' aligned (text version)]]
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| − | :* [[All_Mbp1_T-COFFEE_scores|Mbp1 proteins '''T-Coffee''' aligned (coloured according to scores)]]
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| − | :'''APSES domains:'''
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| − | :* [[APSES_domains_PSI-BLAST|All APSES domains - alignment based on '''PSI-BLAST''' results]]
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| − | :* [[APSES_domains_CLUSTAL|All APSES domains - '''CLUSTAL-W''' alignment]]
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| − | :* [[APSES_domains_probcons|All APSES domains - '''probcons''' alignment]]
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| − | [End of assignment]
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| − | If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to mail me at [mailto:boris.steipe@utoronto.ca boris.steipe@utoronto.ca] or post your question to the [mailto:bch441_2006@googlegroups.com Course Mailing List]
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