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The Genom of Homo sapiens.pdf

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COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR ANALYZING GENOMES 285ABCDEFigure 1. HoxB cluster viewed in the ECR Browser. To start using the ECR Browser, it is possible to begin by searching for a genename or a specific location within the human genome. For example, to locate the HoxB cluster, the user should input “hoxb” in thesearch box and click on the submit button (A). <strong>The</strong> database will be searched and it will generate a list with all the regions that includeHoxB-related genes (B). Since all the HoxB genes are adjacent to each other, any gene can be selected and it will direct to alignmentson human chromosome 17. <strong>The</strong> window size can be adjusted to include all the HoxB genes present in this cluster (C), and the human/mouseand human/Fugu fish pair-wise alignments can be visualized as conservation plots (D). Annotated exons are colored inblue, untranslated regions in yellow, repetitive elements in green, intronic noncoding elements in pink, and intergenic noncoding elementsin red (D,E). By selecting and tabs, users can cross-reference the information displayed inthe ECR Browser with the information available in the UCSC database, and can download sequence and annotation files, or customizealignment plots using the zPicture option (data not shown). Any sequence can be compared to the human, mouse, or Fugu genomes(upload sequences as FASTA files; or NCBI accession numbers). When a cow HoxB contig (AC129959.6) is compared and alignedto the human genome, the ECR Browser allows the visualization <strong>of</strong> the human/cow pair-wise alignment as an independent track (labeledby a question mark) (E).

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