Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on December 1, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Database issue):D735-D740; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm1005
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, Database issue D735-D740
© 2007 The Author(s)
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TreeFam: 2008 Update
1Beijing Institute of Genomics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing 101300, China, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, 3Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK, 4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, 5Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark, 6EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK and 7Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 (0) 1223 834244; Fax: +44 (0) 1223 494919; Email: rd{at}sanger.ac.uk
Correspondence may also be addressed to Jun Wang. Tel: +86 (0) 10 804 81664; Fax: +86 (0) 10 804 98676; Email: wangj{at}genomics.org.cn
Received September 14, 2007. Revised October 21, 2007. Accepted October 23, 2007.
TreeFam (http://www.treefam.org) was developed to provide curated phylogenetic trees for all animal gene families, as well as orthologue and paralogue assignments. Release 4.0 of TreeFam contains curated trees for 1314 families and automatically generated trees for another 14 351 families. We have expanded TreeFam to include 25 fully sequenced animal genomes, as well as four genomes from plant and fungal outgroup species. We have also introduced more accurate approaches for automatically grouping genes into families, for building phylogenetic trees, and for inferring orthologues and paralogues. The user interface for viewing phylogenetic trees and family information has been improved. Furthermore, a new perl API lets users easily extract data from the TreeFam mysql database.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.