OrthoCluster, a new tool for mining syntenic blocks in comparative genomics

We are pleased to announce OrthoCluster, a new tool for mining syntenic blocks in comparative genomics. The tool is described in the following paper:

X. Zeng, J. Pei, I. A. Vergara, M. Nesbitt, K. Wang, and N. Chen. "OrthoCluster: A New Tool for Mining Syntenic Blocks and Applications in Comparative Genomics". In Proceedings of the 11th International Conferences on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'08), Nantes, France, March 25-30, 2008.

The executable code of the tool and the user manual can be downloaded at http://genome.sfu.ca/projects/orthocluster/ Currently, the tool is available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. The tool has been used to analyze genomes of C. elegans and C. briggsae. More details can be found in the paper.

In the near future, we plan to construct a web-based interface for the tool and a public database of genomes and syntenic blocks. More details will be announced later.

The project is supported in part by three NSERC Discovery Grants awards and a Simon Fraser University Community Trust Endowment Fund award.

We welcome any comments, suggestions and collaborations.