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