List of potentially problematic families for all vs. all BLAST methods of orthology determination
From GO Public
Contents |
[edit] Table of erroneous orthologous relationships predicted by sequence-based methods
Columns:
- query gene
- query species
- false positive (fp) / false negative (fn): indicate fp or fn
- problem organism:problem gene(s): separate multiples with a -
- method
- note
| Query gene | Query species | False positive (fp) / False negative (fn) | Problem species:problem gene(s) - | Method | Note |
| TNNT2 | human | (fp) | s.cerevisiae:S000006026 and S000000376 | YOGY/Inparanoid | see SF geneontology-Ref Genome Ortholog Set Completion-1903284 |
| TPM1 | human | fn | s.cerevisiae:TPM1-s.pombe:cdc8 | YOGY | tropomycin not picked up by any of the predictors in YOGY for yeasts (and possibly other organisms) using the human a query but are conserved from yeast to human, found in treefam |
| MYL3 | human | fn | s.cerevisiae:MLC1-s.pombe:cdc4 | YOGY | myosin light chain not picked up by any of the predictors in YOGY for yeasts (and possibly other organisms) using the human a query but are conserved from yeast to human, found in treefam |
| APTX | human | fn | s.cerevisiae:HNT3-s.pombe:SPCC18.09C | YOGY | aprataxin not picked up by any of the predictors in YOGY for yeasts (and possibly other organisms) using the human a query but are conserved from yeast to human, found in treefam |
| ATXN2 | human | fn | s.cerevisiae:PBP1-s.pombe:SPBC21B10.03c | YOGY | ataxin-2 not picked up by any of the predictors in YOGY for yeasts (and possibly other organisms) using the human a query but are conserved from yeast to human, Treefam missed pombe SPCC18.09c, but picks up cerevisiae HNT3 |
| RPS21 | human | fn | Dictyostelium rps21 gene was missed (DDB0231061) | BLAST, inparanoid | |
| IMMT | human | fp? | Dicty DDB0267127 (DDB0191041) | BLAST gives different results | |
| C20orf43 | human | fn? | Dicty DDB0267130 (DDB0187988) | BLAST and in paranoid clearly pick up that gene |
[edit] List of potentially problematic families
[edit] Major Facilitator Superfamily (from Val's email)
From Val: I just spotted 2 genes in the new list which have 12 reported S. c orthologs These are MFS (major facilitator) superfamily and are problematic in terms of assigning orthologs because lots of unrelated MSF family proteins can generate best hits in distantly related genomes. These 'orthologs' are only predicted by KOGs (which is the worst predictor for 'lumping' large families).
I would recommend, if possible, trying to avoid MSF family proteins for ref genome candidates if possible (at least until we have a consistent way of confirming orthologs) because: i) orthology identification is difficult ii) the homology transfers which can be made are minimal, once you have captured the fact that these are 'membrane transporters' and involved in 'membrane transport' because the specificities and processes are often not conserved, even between closely related species (there are lots of duplications, and gene losses which confuse any functional transfer) Using Treefam (non of the yeast proteins are listed as outgroups for this large orthologous cluster) http://www.treefam.org/cgi-bin/TFinfo.pl?ac=TF314445
This could be added to the false positive list.
[edit] Repeat families (from Val's email)
Watch families with LRR, TPR and TPR-related repeats. WD repeats also but these seem to be more conserved between orthologs so they aren't so problematic.
[edit] Low-complexity or coiled-coil regions (from Val's email)
These can often generate false positives based on statistically significant matches that are not due to orthology.
