Several groups have produced alignments of these Drosophila species. Please remember that accurate multiple-species alignment is a challenging problem, and these alignments must be viewed as works in progress.
Colin Dewey in Lior Pachter's group at UC Berkeley has developed MERCATOR to create multiple-species whole-genome orthology maps, which they have combined with their multiple-sequence aligner MAVID to produce multiple alignments. Raw alignments of several Drosophila species, as well as a multi-species browser for each alignment, are available here.
Aaron Darling in Nicole Perna's group at UW-Madison has developed multiple-alignment software called MAUVE. Their alignments of Drosophila species and viewing software are available here.
Dan Pollard and Venky Iyer in Michael Eisen's group at UC Berkeley/LBNL have produced alignments using MLAGAN to align orthologous blocks identified using orthologous coding genes, syteny and nucleotide similarity. These alignments are available here.
UCSC has produced 8 species multiple alignments using multiz. Tracks showing conservation for each of these species are shown on their genome browsers.
Inna Dubchak's group at LBNL has a version of their VISTA browser dedicated to these species.
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