RESEARCH ARTICLE


The Rainbow Prim Algorithm for Selecting Putative Orthologous Protein Sequences



Anna Rosa Troisi1, Giovanni Aloisio1, Ivan Rossi2, Piero Fariselli2, Fariselli Casadio*, 2
1 University of Salento & SPACI Consortium, via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy
2 Biocomputing Group - Department of Biology, University of Bologna, via Irnerio 42 40126 Bologna, Italy


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© 2008 Troisi et al.

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Biocomputing Group - Department of Biology, University of Bologna, via Irnerio 42 40126 Bologna, Italy; E-mail: casadio@biocomp.unibo.it


Abstract

We present a selection method designed for eliminating species redundancy in clusters of putative orthologous sequences, to be applied as a post-processing procedure to pre-clustered data obtained from other methods. The algorithm can always zero-out the cluster redundancy while preserving the number of species of the original cluster