Genomic Database - Ensembl Ka-Lok Ng Department of Bioinformatics Asia University

Ensembl Worked example The human protein single-stranded DNA binding protein 4, SSBP4. How can one find the mouse ortholog at Ensemble, without doing a BLAST search. Ans. From the Ensembl human genome browser, search for the SSBP4 gene.

It returns Ensembl Gene: ENSG (RefSeq NM_ ). Following the link to GeneView in the Orthologue Predication section are the results of sequence comparison between the human gene and genes from other organisms. The mouse gene ENSMUSG is a best reciprocal hit to the human. This mouse gene (growth differentiation factor 15) is a putative ortholog of the human SSBP4 corresponding to RefSeq. NM_ (see the Similarity Section).

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