METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SYNTENIC REGIONS

摘要

The identification of the syntenic regions of a given genomic fragment conventionally involves a similarity-based search, and then taking the best hits and extending them manually until the whole region of interest is covered. Such a process is labor intensive and not suitable for a pipeline with thousands of sequences to analyze. The present invention consists of a method for the automatic identification of syntenic regions of a given input sequence, and its optimization to yield results with high specificity.