Section: New Software and Platforms

DeCoSTAR

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Evolution

Functional Description: DeCoSTAR reconstructs ancestral genomes and improves the assembly of extant genomes. It takes as input a set of gene trees, a species tree and adjacency relations between extant genes. It outputs ancestral genes, adjacencies between extant and ancestral genes, and a statistical support associated to each inferred adjacency.

News Of The Year: Publication of the software with several test sets in Genome Biology and Evolution

• Participants: Eric Tannier and Wandrille Duchemin

• Contact: Eric Tannier

• Publication: DeCoSTAR: Reconstructing the ancestral organization of genes or genomes using reconciled phylogenies

• URL: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/DeCoSTAR/