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Furthermore, orthology is typically only assessed in terms of function conservation, despite the phylogeny-based original definition of Fitch.

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  1. The right description of things. The natural and … homogeneal parts of grammar be two: orthology and orthography; … the first of them, orthology, … the right imposition of names; … the second of them, orthography, … the rare invention of letters. Fotherby, Atheomastix (1622), p. 346.
  2. The correct use of words.

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  • Furthermore, orthology is typically only assessed in terms of function conservation, despite the phylogeny-based original definition of Fitch. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Results: We have developed the algorithm PanCGH that incorporates orthology information about genes to predict the presence or absence of orthologous genes in a query organism using CGH arrays that target the genomes of sequenced representatives of a group of microorganisms. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The database was formed using the total non-redundant nuclear and organelle encoded sets of protein sequences and allows relational searching of published proteomic analyses of Arabidopsis mitochondrial samples, a set of predictions from six independent subcellular-targeting prediction programs, and orthology predictions based on pairwise comparison of the Arabidopsis protein set with known yeast and human mitochondrial proteins and with the proteome of Rickettsia. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • (ACT), Mauve, CoreGenes, and GeneOrder. aaarchaeansf aarchaeansf aatol alignment alignmentwabi assembly biodiversity coalescent cog coregenomehypothesis dna-replication evolution geneconversion genomeannotation genomecomparison genomeevolution genomerearrangement genomesequencing hmm horizontaltransfer hpc inversions mcmc metagenomics microbialevolution motifdetection mrbayes noncoding-rna nsfprop optical-map orthology phylogenetics polony populationgenetics positiveselection randomwalks recombination repeats sequence speciation speciestree statisticalalignment virus visualization wabi yersinia CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Contact: miklos@stats. ox.ac.uk aaanew aaarchaeansf aarchaeansf aatol alignment alignmentwabi assembly biodiversity coalescent cog coregenomehypothesis dna-replication evolution geneconversion genomeannotation genomecomparison genomeevolution genomerearrangement genomesequencing hmm horizontaltransfer hpc inversions mcmc metagenomics microbialevolution motifdetection mrbayes noncoding-rna nsfprop optical-map orthology phylogenetics polony populationgenetics positiveselection randomwalks recombination repeats sequence speciation speciestree statisticalalignment virus visualization wabi yersinia CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. from Greek ὀρθολογία, exactness of language, from ὀρθολογεῑν, speak correctly, from ὀρθός, right, correct, + λέγειν, speak.
 

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