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Table 1 Numbers of orthologues, orthogroups, inparalogues and gene births identified by Orthonome, OrthoDB, MultiMSOAR2, OMA groups and reciprocal best hit (RBH) using the same input data

From: Orthonome – a new pipeline for predicting high quality orthologue gene sets applicable to complete and draft genomes

Comparison

Measures

Orthonome

OrthoDB

Multi

MSOAR2

OMA

RBH

Twelve FlyBase genomes

Average number of genes per species

15,446

Average number of orthologues per species

13,517

13,270

13,310

12,934

13,545

Average number of inparalogues per species

1519

NA

1543

NA

NA

Average number of gene births per species

400

2805

593

NA

NA

Number of 1:1 (n=all) orthogroups

9538

6621

9595

5380

8643

Number of 1:1 (1<n<all) orthogroups

6711

10,231

6042

15,493

9756

Twenty genomes (Twelve FlyBase + eight modENCODE)

Average number of genes per species

15,055

Average number of orthologues per species

13,272

13,091

12,964

12,565

13,504

Average number of inparalogues per species

1305

NA

1422

NA

NA

Average number of gene births per species

468

2343

670

NA

NA

Number of 1:1 (n=all) orthogroups

6541

3912

7491

2555

5757

Number of 1:1 (1<n<all) orthogroups

14,047

16,681

11,880

25,694

16,799

  1. Inparalogue predictions were carried out only in Orthonome and MultiMSOAR2. NA denotes the lack of inparalogue identification by OrthoDB and values that could not be calculated for MSOAR2 (since it has a different scoring method than Orthonome)