Roundup is a database of orthologs and their evolutionary distances.

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Good luck, researchers!

What is Roundup?

Roundup is a large-scale database of orthology. The orthologs are computed using the Reciprocal Smallest Distance (RSD) algorithm. This algorithm detects more (and more accurate) orthologs than reciprocal best blast hits and gives each ortholog a score based on evolutionary distance.

Roundup results are integrated with terms from Gene Ontology and gene names from NCBI. Roundup is a living dataset: the underlying genomes and the orthologs computed from them are updated regularly.
Read a tutorial (PDF) about the locally-installable version of the RSD algorithm then download the RSD algorithm package.

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Current Database Statistics

Around 533 (and growing) updated monthly.

141,778 unique pair-wise genome orthology comparisons completed.

1,136,486,814 orthologous pairs of genes predicted in total (for all parameter combinations) and growing as more pairs of genomes are compared.

Latest Updates

dennis
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 11:27

Some great news: the most recent run of computation has finished after many months. The data from...

dennis
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 13:00

This amounts to about 6.4 gig of genomic data to compute, although the results files will be much...

dennis
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 12:53

Apologies to all for the outage on Friday 5 June. We hope it didn't inconvenience any research. T...

dennis
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 16:59

I'm completing the new portal on the front end, while Todd works on various database improvements...

todd
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00

Transitioned orthologs from the old schema to the new schema in the production roundup database.<...

hi anon