Genepleio software for effective estimation of gene pleiotropy from protein sequences.
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SUBMITTER: Chen W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4299487 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Genepleio software for effective estimation of gene pleiotropy from protein sequences.
Chen Wenhai W Chen Dandan D Zhao Ming M Zou Yangyun Y Zeng Yanwu Y Gu Xun X
BioMed research international 20150105
Though pleiotropy, which refers to the phenomenon of a gene affecting multiple traits, has long played a central role in genetics, development, and evolution, estimation of the number of pleiotropy components remains a hard mission to accomplish. In this paper, we report a newly developed software package, Genepleio, to estimate the effective gene pleiotropy from phylogenetic analysis of protein sequences. Since this estimate can be interpreted as the minimum pleiotropy of a gene, it is used to ...[more]
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