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일시: 2012년 3월 15일(목) 10:30
연사: 송길태 박사(Pennsylvania State University)
장소: 25동 411호

Title:
Revealing mammalian evolutionary relationships by comparative analysis of gene clusters

Abstract:
Many software tools for comparative analysis of genomic sequence data have been released in recent decades. Despite this, it remains challenging to determine evolutionary relationships in gene clusters due to their complex histories involving duplications, deletions, inversions, and conversions. One concept describing these relationships is orthology. Orthologs derive from a common ancestor by speciation, in contrast to paralogs, which derive from duplication. Discriminating orthologs from paralogs is a necessary step in most multi-species sequence analyses, but doing so accurately is impeded by the occurrence of gene conversion events. We propose a refined method of orthology assignment based on two paradigms for interpreting its definition: by genomic context or by sequence content. X-orthology (based on context) traces orthology resulting from speciation and duplication only, while N-orthology (based on content) includes the influence of conversion events. We developed a computational method for automatically mapping both types of orthology on a per-nucleotide basis in gene cluster regions studied by comparative
sequencing, and we make this mapping accessible by visualizing the output. All of these steps are incorporated into our newly extended CHAP 2 package. We evaluate our method using both simulated data and real gene clusters (including the well- characterized α-globin and β-globin clusters). We also illustrate use of CHAP 2 by analyzing four more loci: CCL (chemokine ligand), IFN (interferon), CYP2abf (part of cytochrome P450 family 2), and KIR (killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors). These new methods facilitate and extend our understanding of evolution at these and other loci by adding automated, accurate evolutionary inference to the biologist’s toolkit. The CHAP 2 package is freely available from http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab.

Academic Experience
2012-present : Postdoctoral researcher, Webb Miller's Lab, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University
2001 – 2004 : Instructor, Department of Computer Science,
Korea Naval Academy, Korea,
Education
Ph.D.,Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2011
M.S.,Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 2001
B.S., Computer Science, Seoul National University, Korea, 1999

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