AMESA

ADVANCED METHODS FOR EVOLUTIONARY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

 Coordinatore HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO 

 Organization address address: YLIOPISTONKATU 4
city: HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
postcode: 14

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Katariina
Cognome: Vainio-Mattila
Email: send email
Telefono: 358919000000
Fax: 358919000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Finland [FI]
 Totale costo 100˙000 €
 EC contributo 100˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
 Funding Scheme MC-CIG
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-03-01   -   2016-02-29

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO

 Organization address address: YLIOPISTONKATU 4
city: HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
postcode: 14

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Katariina
Cognome: Vainio-Mattila
Email: send email
Telefono: 358919000000
Fax: 358919000000

FI (HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO) coordinator 100˙000.00

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ngs    evolutionary    sequence    inference    alignments    data    sequencing    phylogenetic    tools    extends    alignment   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Sequence alignment is widely used in molecular biology. Despite its age, the challenge is still not fully resolved: no method can suit all tasks, new approaches are needed for the evolving questions and even traditional methods can still be improved. Although many alignment tasks are related, some are based on incompatible principles and their need for distinct tools is not always understood. Evolutionary sequence alignment, the focus of this application, is a pre-requisite for all comparative analyses and needed e.g. in agricultural and medical research.

The project aims at developing new methods for evolutionary and comparative sequence analysis using a novel approach of modelling data and considering evolutionary information. These methods target two current trends in sequence analysis, the increasing size of datasets and the specific properties of data produced on next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, from several different angles. First, I will develop novel ways to extend existing alignments and compute very large alignments; second, by modelling the properties of NGS data, I will expand the possible applications of NGS methods in evolutionary analysis. The new methods are meant to replace my earlier approaches for phylogenetic sequence alignment and become internationally recognised tools in evolutionary inference.

The proposed work consists of five sub-projects, each describing a specific use case. Methods 1 and 2 focus on evolutionary sequence alignment and inference of evolutionary change; Method 3 extends these to modelling of sequence features and their inference from data using comparative methods; Method 4 focuses on high-throughput sequencing data with a special emphasis on non-model organisms and the use of evolutionary modelling to exploit phylogenetic information; and Method 5 extends the ideas to large-scale analyses using computational speed ups. Especially Methods 3 and 4 will benefit from local collaborations at my new host institute.'

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