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New Project

Script

Catching polymorphisms

Features

Key software applications

Target screening

Fast and automatic online tool to screen for most suitable diagnostic targets in genomes using novel sliding-window approach

Alignment processing

Masking all taxon-specific polymorphisms, insertions and deletions directly in multiple sequence alignment of orthologs

Data inspecting

Complete set of input and output files including publication-quality plots is available for download and further analysis

Portfolio

Research case stories

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Patent

Plant pathogen detection

Manual

Pipeline for users

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    Export target sequences

    The user should to prepare a set of any potential targets in genome of interest, for example highly conserved genes or regions

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    Find closest homologs

    To catch statistically reliable mutations, it is necessary to find closest orthologs for the target of interest using NCBI BLAST

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    Make multiple alignment

    Each set of pre-formatted orthologous target sequences is submitted to Clustal Omega with an "Input" value of the order option

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    Detect specific mutations

    Multiple sequence alignment of orthologous sequences is submitted to MorphoCatcher in accordance with type of operating system

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    Design primer sets

    Output text files with masked target sequence for each taxon can be directly submitted to PrimerExplorer

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    Manual and tutorial files

    The user can to download a detailed manual with two case studies, tutorial files, and a command line version of the tool here

Team

Authors and developers

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Fedor V. Shirshikov

Algorithm developer

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Yury A. Pekov

Python coder

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Konstantin A. Miroshnikov

Scientific advisor

We hope that future versions of the MorphoCatcher will automatize some steps from the pipeline to provide high-throughput target screening and processing. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact our technical support at shrshkv@ya.ru