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OMAMO: orthology-based alternative model organism selection

Nicheperovich, Alina; Altenhoff, Adrian M; Dessimoz, Christophe; Majidian, Sina; (2022) OMAMO: orthology-based alternative model organism selection. Bioinformatics 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac163. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

SUMMARY: The conservation of pathways and genes across species has allowed scientists to use non-human model organisms to gain a deeper understanding of human biology. However, the use of traditional model systems such as mice, rats, and zebrafish is costly, time-consuming and increasingly raises ethical concerns, which highlights the need to search for less complex model organisms. Existing tools only focus on the few well-studied model systems, most of which are complex animals. To address these issues, we have developed Orthologous Matrix and Alternative Model Organisms, a software and a web service that provide the user with the best non-complex organism for research into a biological process of interest based on orthologous relationships between human and the species. The outputs provided by OMAMO were supported by a systematic literature review. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://omabrowser.org/omamo/, https://github.com/DessimozLab/omamo. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Type: Article
Title: OMAMO: orthology-based alternative model organism selection
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac163
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac163
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146437
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