Challenges and best practices in omics benchmarking

TG Brooks, NF Lahens, A Mrčela, GR Grant - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Technological advances enabling massively parallel measurement of biological features—
such as microarrays, high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry—have ushered in …

The alliance of genome resources: transforming comparative genomics

CJ Bult, PW Sternberg - Mammalian Genome, 2023 - Springer
Comparing genomic and biological characteristics across multiple species is essential to
using model systems to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying …

OrthoVenn3: an integrated platform for exploring and visualizing orthologous data across genomes

J Sun, F Lu, Y Luo, L Bie, L Xu, Y Wang - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Advancements in comparative genomics research have led to a growing interest in studying
species evolution and genetic diversity. To facilitate this research, OrthoVenn3 has been …

KEGG tools for classification and analysis of viral proteins

Z Jin, Y Sato, M Kawashima, M Kanehisa - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The KEGG database and analysis tools (https://www. kegg. jp) have been developed mostly
for understanding genes and genomes of cellular organisms. The KO (KEGG Orthology) …

Orthology inference at scale with FastOMA

S Majidian, Y Nevers, A Yazdizadeh Kharrazi… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The surge in genome data, with ongoing efforts aiming to sequence 1.5 M eukaryotes in a
decade, could revolutionize genomics, revealing the origins, evolution and genetic …

ncOrtho: efficient and reliable identification of miRNA orthologs

F Langschied, MS Leisegang, RP Brandes… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators that finetune gene expression via
translational repression or degradation of their target mRNAs. Despite their functional …

SonicParanoid2: fast, accurate, and comprehensive orthology inference with machine learning and language models

S Cosentino, S Sriswasdi, W Iwasaki - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Accurate inference of orthologous genes constitutes a prerequisite for comparative and
evolutionary genomics. SonicParanoid is one of the fastest tools for orthology inference; …

[HTML][HTML] InParanoiDB 9: ortholog groups for protein domains and full-length proteins

E Persson, ELL Sonnhammer - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Prediction of orthologs is an important bioinformatics pursuit that is frequently used for
inferring protein function and evolutionary analyses. The InParanoid database is a well …

GET_PANGENES: calling pangenes from plant genome alignments confirms presence-absence variation

B Contreras-Moreira, S Saraf, G Naamati, AM Casas… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Crop pangenomes made from individual cultivar assemblies promise easy access to
conserved genes, but genome content variability and inconsistent identifiers hamper their …

Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes

TA Richards, L Eme, JM Archibald, G Leonard… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of
biology. A key challenge relevant to the question of eukaryogenesis is reconstructing the …