In article a100000 at wagsun, marchaa at agric.nsw.gov.au (A.Marchant) writes:
> Could someone please tell me how to go about finding and comparing the
> sequences of homologous genes from diferent organisms, in the sequence
> databases?
>> What I would like to do is to find published sequences of gene X from
> different organisms, line them up, and identify conserved regions.
>> Specifically, I am interested in the internal transcribed spacer region of
> ribosomal DNA - a lot of work has been done on this region, from lots of
> different organisms, so perhaps there is a recent published article which
> compares the sequences found from very different taxa. If anyone
> knows of such (or, better still, has written it!), could they tell me
> about it, please?
>
You should have a look at MUST [1], a computer package that has been developed to
handle sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees. This tool is provided with
a collection of aligned rRNA sequences.
Hope this helps,
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[1] Philippe H. (1993) Nucl. Acids Res. 21:5264-72
H. Philippe can be contacted at: adoutte at citi2.fr
