[Bioperl-l] Re: Comparative genomics - regions of synteny and whole genome duplication

[Elia Stupka]

> Well, do you actually need to define orthologues to do this? Doesn't the fact 
> that you have a sufficient number of highly homologous linked genes in the 
> same (or similar) order strongly point to the interpretation that they are 
> orthologues (at least if you're doing a cross-species comparison)?

>From all the discussions we have been having until now it seems that it is
not enough, i.e. blast hit with high perc_id != orthologue :)

Elia

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