Bellerophon: a program to detect chimeric sequences in multiple sequence alignments

Thomas Huber; Geoffrey Faulkner; Philip Hugenholtz

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth226

Bellerophon: a program to detect chimeric sequences in multiple sequence alignments

Bioinformatics. 2004 Sep 22;20(14):2317-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth226. Epub 2004 Apr 8.

Authors

Thomas Huber¹, Geoffrey Faulkner, Philip Hugenholtz

Affiliation

¹ ComBinE group, Advanced Computational Modelling Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.

PMID: 15073015
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth226

Abstract

Summary: Bellerophon is a program for detecting chimeric sequences in multiple sequence datasets by an adaption of partial treeing analysis. Bellerophon was specifically developed to detect 16S rRNA gene chimeras in PCR-clone libraries of environmental samples but can be applied to other nucleotide sequence alignments.

Availability: Bellerophon is available as an interactive web server at http://foo.maths.uq.edu.au/~huber/bellerophon.pl

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Chimera
Conserved Sequence
Evolution, Molecular
Internet
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
Protein Isoforms / analysis
Protein Isoforms / chemistry
Protein Isoforms / classification
Protein Isoforms / genetics
Proteins / analysis
Proteins / chemistry*
Proteins / classification
Proteins / genetics*
Sequence Alignment / methods*
Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Software*
User-Computer Interface

Substances

Protein Isoforms
Proteins