[Genome] Genome Browser Aligned Sequence suggestion

[Archana Thakkapallayil]

Hello Malcom,

I have passed your suggestions to our developers and here is the response:

Regarding the yeast alignments, we cannot align genomic sequence across 
such large evolutionary distances. Only the most conserved of things 
(histones, chromatin modification, etc) are align-able at this distance 
and there's effectively no synteny. So orthology is impossible to determine.

Regarding Arabidopsis, unfortunately we do not have plans for including 
plants to our browser. We are sorry about that.

Thank you for the suggestions.

Regards,

Archana
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


A. Malcolm Campbell wrote:
> In the comparative genomics section, could you PLEASE add a yeast  
> comparison? As one of the great model organisms, it would be very  
> powerful to see its sequences aligned with the other eukaryotes.
>
> As a second request, it would be instructional to be able to compare  
> Arabidopsis by this method as well.
>
> Thank you,
> Malcolm
>
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