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visualize amino acid changes in genes that are positively selected after codeml run

Dear All,

can anyone suggest a tool/software to visualize amino acid changes of positively selected genes? I have run codeml and detected positively selected genes, and now I want to produce 3D graphs of genes by emphasizing amino acid changes.

Do you know any tool or software for this?

gene alignment genome

1 answer

The ETE3 toolkit wraps codeml and, in addition to performing selection tests, it produces some nice figures. It also has an interactive GUI mode where one can customize / explore the analyses and graphics. For examples, see:

http://etetoolkit.org/documentation/ete-evol/

http://etetoolkit.org/docs/latest/tutorial/tutorial_adaptation.html

http://etetoolkit.org/cookbook/ete_evol_codeml_configuration_files.ipynb

I am not sure what you mean by "3D graphs of genes by emphasizing amino acid changes", though. Are you talking about protein structure?

Thank you for your suggestions. I mean I want to show where amino acid changes of a protein occurred due to positive selection.

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