BPhyOG: An interactive server for genome-wide inference of bacterial phylogenies based on overlapping genes

Background: Overlapping genes (OGs) in bacterial genomes are pairs of adjacent genes of which the coding sequences overlap partly or entirely. With the rapid accumulation of sequence data, many OGs in bacterial genomes have now been identified. Indeed, these might prove a consistent feature across all microbial genomes. Our previous work suggests that OGs can be considered as robust markers at the whole genome level for the construction of phylogenies. An online, interactive web server for inferring phylogenies is needed for biologists to analyze phylogenetic relationships among a set of bacterial genomes of interest. Description: BPhyOG is an online interactive server for reconstructing the phylogenies of completely sequenced bacterial genomes on the basis of their shared overlapping genes. It provides two tree-reconstruction methods: Neighbor Joining (NJ) and Unweighted Pair-Group Method using Arithmetic averages (UPGMA). Users can apply the desired method to generate phylogenetic t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Yingqin Luo, Cong Fu, Da-Yong Zhang, Kui Lin
• Keywords: Bacterial Genomes, BMCBI 2007, Genomes, Og Pairs