Title |
TaxMan: a taxonomic database manager
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Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, December 2006
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2105-7-536 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Martin Jones, Mark Blaxter |
Abstract |
Phylogenetic analysis of large, multiple-gene datasets, assembled from public sequence databases, is rapidly becoming a popular way to approach difficult phylogenetic problems. Supermatrices (concatenated multiple sequence alignments of multiple genes) can yield more phylogenetic signal than individual genes. However, manually assembling such datasets for a large taxonomic group is time-consuming and error-prone. Additionally, sequence curation, alignment and assessment of the results of phylogenetic analysis are made particularly difficult by the potential for a given gene in a given species to be unrepresented, or to be represented by multiple or partial sequences. We have developed a software package, TaxMan, that largely automates the processes of sequence acquisition, consensus building, alignment and taxon selection to facilitate this type of phylogenetic study. |
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Unknown | 41 | 82% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 26% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 6% |
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 2 | 4% |
Other | 8 | 16% |
Unknown | 3 | 6% |
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Environmental Science | 1 | 2% |
Other | 2 | 4% |
Unknown | 1 | 2% |