[ensembl-dev] Directionality of pan taxonomic compara DB

Albert Vilella avilella at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Oct 26 12:15:26 BST 2010


Only for the genomes represented in pancompara, otherwise you need a
would need a complicated two-step process...

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Gallone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed I can get vertebrate homologs of protists genes using the pan 
> taxonomic db. For example PF11_0303 in P. falciparum has orthologues in 
> D.rerio, H.sapiens, M.musculus, etc.
> 
> Now my question is: is the pan-homology db bidirectional? I.e. can I 
> query a mouse, human, etc gene and get its orthologues in p.falciparum 
> through the API?
> 
> Regards,
> G.






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