Help:Choice of species in VectorBase genome comparisons

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VectorBase runs a genome comparison pipeline using the VectorBase species (Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti) with three model organisms: Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans and Homo sapiens. Other insect species have been or are being annotated, namely Apis mellifera, Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori. At the moment (Jan.2007), no completed gene sets are available for these genomes.

The orthologues/paralogues are determined using the Compara pipeline - this pipeline is built from Ensembl formatted data (technically: the data has to be in an Ensembl-style database). Using non-Ensembl data would involve one of the following approaches:

• Modify the pipeline to use non-Ensembl data.
• Import the data in an Ensembl format.