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10 <h3>Conserved Ortholog Set (COS) markers</h3>
13 <p>We have used a computational method to screen the
14 tomato EST database against the arabidopsis genome
15 sequence in order to find a set of highly conserved,
16 single copy genes which can be used as markers for
17 comparative mapping between the tomato and arabidopsis
18 genomes. Currently we have identified approximately 1000
19 of these Conserved Ortholog Set (COS) markers.<br /></p>
21 <p>In this section of SGN, you will find sequence and
22 clone information for each of these COS markers as well
23 as their matching counterpart in the arabidopsis genome.
24 We have surveyed these COS markers and mapped some of
25 these COS markers on the tomato genome to provide a
26 tomato: arabidopsis comparative map. This mapping
27 information is available on SGN now.<br /></p>
29 <p>Because these COS markers are so highly conserved,
30 they may also be useful for comparative mapping in other
31 dicot species. The computational screen by how COS
32 markers were identified is described below:</p>
35 <li>TBLASTX tomato ESTs against the arabidopsis genome
36 (specifically, the BAC tiling path from TAIR)</li>
38 <li>Identify single best matches (< e -15) between a
39 single tomato EST (or associated contig) and a single
40 BAC in Arabidopsis. Each tomato EST must pass the
44 <li>it hits an arabidopsis sequence at a
45 significance level of < e -15</li>
47 <li>it is determined to be NOT part of a domain
48 (where several solanaceous sequences hit the same
49 arabidopsis region)</li>
51 <li>the next best Arabidopsis hit must be of lower
52 significance (delta e > 10)</li>
56 <li>ESTs that pass all these criteria are classified as
57 conserved orthologs, all others are considered
58 potentially paralogous and eliminated.</li>
61 <h4>Functional annotation of COS markers</h4>
63 <p>COS-markers were functionally annotated using the MIPS
64 role categories as they were defined at the time of the
65 analysis. As the functional role descriptions are subject
66 to continued changes, a copy of the role categories and
67 the COS-marker annotations as used in the analysis can be
68 found below:<br /></p>
70 <p><a href="/documents/markers/role_categories.txt">MIPS role categories at
71 time of COS marker annotation</a></p>
73 <h4>The list of COS markers is available in both online
74 and plain text format</h4>
76 <p><a href="/search/markers/cos_list.pl">COS list
77 online</a> - online format with links to sequences and
79 <a href="/documents/markers/cos_list-old.txt">Old plain text download</a> - plain
80 text format for download. <br />
81 <a href="/documents/markers/cos_list.txt">Old plain text download 2</a> - plain
82 text format for download.
85 <p><strong>Note:</strong> for the tomato map position in
86 the table linked above:</p>
89 <li>Copy No is how many copies the COS marker shows on
90 a southern blot survey- S(single) is 1-2 copy, L(low)
91 is 3-4 copy, M(multiple) means more than 4 copy.</li>
93 <li>Map position is where the COS marker mapped on the
94 tomato: arabidopsis systeny map. For example, T1675 map
95 position is 01.005, meaning Chromosome 1, 5 cM down
96 from the top. Most of the COS markers have only one map
97 position, if the COS marker has a second or third map
98 position, then there were two or three alleles that