SeDuS: segmental duplication simulator

SUMMARY: SeDuS is the first flexible and user-friendly forward-in-time simulator of patterns of molecular evolution within segmental duplications undergoing interlocus gene conversion and crossover. SeDuS introduces known features of interlocus gene conversion such as biased directionality and depen...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Authors: Hartasánchez Frenk, Diego Andrés, 1982-, Brasó-Vives, Marina, 1990-, Fuentes-Díaz, Juanma, Vallés-Codina, Oriol, Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2016
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/32140
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv481
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Àcids nucleics
Simulació per ordinador
Evolució molecular
Description
Summary:SUMMARY: SeDuS is the first flexible and user-friendly forward-in-time simulator of patterns of molecular evolution within segmental duplications undergoing interlocus gene conversion and crossover. SeDuS introduces known features of interlocus gene conversion such as biased directionality and dependence on local sequence identity. Additionally, it includes aspects such as different selective pressures acting upon copy number and flexible crossover distributions. A graphical user interface allows fast fine-tuning of relevant parameters and straightforward real-time analysis of the evolution of duplicates. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: SeDuS is implemented in C++ and can be run via command line or through a graphical user interface developed using Qt C++. Source code and binary executables for Linux, OS X and Windows are freely available at www.biologiaevolutiva.org/sedus/. A tutorial with a detailed description of implementation, parameters and output files is available online.