NEWS

Feb 28, 2008
OrthoMCL-DB Version 2 is released. The new dataset includes an increased number of genomes (87). New features on the web site include a system wide speed up; a significant speed up of the phyletic pattern query; improvements in query pages and group pages to accomodate the increased number of genomes; and use of public identifiers for sequences throughout the site, instead of assigned identifiers. Perhaps most importantly, the production of the dataset has been moved to a pipeline system. This will allow us to generate new versions at a much improved frequency. For reference, OrthoMCL-DB Version 1.0 is still online.

Apr 18, 2007
OrthoMCL is one of the best evaluated in PLoS ONE 2(4): e383.

Apr 24, 2006
We just recovered our OrthoMCL-DB server from a hack-in that happened a week ago.

Jan 18, 2006
A new feature is added to the history function: group queries and sequence queries can be transformed to each other, which allows much more flexible queries (e.g. all protein kinases that have a specific phyletic pattern).

Jan 1, 2006
The paper describing OrthoMCL-DB is published at Nucleic Acids Research. Link to the paper.

Sep 23, 2005
We added interactive SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) graphs for BioLayout. By using this tool, you can navigate the sequence relationships within ortholog groups (group size <= 100): reciprocal best hits across species; reciprocal better hits within species; and other general edge relationships! Please forward any suggestion/bug report to help@orthomcl.org Thanks.