I know that I can find cerevisiae protein homolog in ensembl.org. But I didn't find a S.pombe database. Is there any way to find human and bacteria homologs of S. pombe protein? Thanks in advance.
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the three non-vertebrates that appear in the main Ensembl database (along with Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans), used to anchor the gene trees in Ensembl. To find other non-vertebrates, you'll need to used our sister site, Ensembl Genomes. Here you'll find a database for fungi and for bacteria. In Ensembl Genomes, we have the pan-compara analysis, which compares a subset of species from a each of the taxa. Schizosaccharomyces pombe is one of these species, as is human and a number of bacteria. This means that for any gene in S. pombe you can find orthologues in bacteria, human and other species (if they exist).
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