In silico sequence evolution with site-specific interactions along phylogenetic trees.
Bioinformatics
; 22(6): 716-22, 2006 Mar 15.
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ABSTRACT
MOTIVATION A biological sequence usually has many sites whose evolution depends on other positions of the sequence, but this is not accounted for by commonly used models of sequence evolution. Here we introduce a Markov model of nucleotide sequence evolution in which the instantaneous substitution rate at a site depends on the states of other sites. Based on the concept of neighbourhood systems, our model represents a universal description of arbitrarily complex dependencies among sites. RESULTS:
We show how to define complex models for some illustrative examples and demonstrate that our method provides a versatile resource for simulations of sequence evolution with site-specific interactions along a tree. For example, we are able to simulate the evolution of RNA taking into account both secondary structure as well as pseudoknots and other tertiary interactions. To this end, we have developed a program Simulating Site-Specific Interactions (SISSI) that simulates evolution of a nucleotide sequence along a phylogenetic tree incorporating user defined site-specific interactions. Furthermore, our method allows to simulate more complex interactions among nucleotide and other character based sequences.AVAILABILITY:
We implemented our method in an ANSI C program SISSI which runs on UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS systems, including Mac OS X. SISSI is available at http//www.bi.uni-duesseldorf.de/software/sissi/
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Assunto principal:
Alinhamento de Sequência
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Análise de Sequência de RNA
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Evolução Molecular
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Pareamento Incorreto de Bases
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Modelos Genéticos
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bioinformatics
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article
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