SEA-PHAGES Logo

The official website of the HHMI Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science program.

Abstract Summary

Below is a summary of the abstract you submitted. Presenting author(s) is shown in bold.

If any changes need to be made, you can modify the abstract or change the authors.

You can also download a .docx version of this abstract.

If there are any problems, please email Dan at dar78@pitt.edu and he'll take care of them!

This abstract was last modified on May 23, 2024 at 2:31 p.m..

Washington University in St. Louis
Corresponding Faculty Member: Chris Shaffer, shaffer@wustl.edu
This abstract will NOT be considered for a talk.
The inner workings and alternative uses for Starterator
Christopher D Shaffer

Starterator is a python 2.7 program originally written in the Hatfull lab by Marissa Pacey led by Dan Russell. It is designed to characterize the evolutionary context of possible start codons among a collection of orthologous genes. By using multiple sequence alignments of genes from all members of a pham the level of conservation and position of annotated start codons is visualized and the results can be used as evidence for start codon annotations of new pham member genes. This poster will present a view of the inner workings of Starterator including the underlying algorithms, it will also discuss how these results are presented in the graphical and textual output, discuss methods to help interpret the results, and discuss the benefits and disadvantages of using whole phage reports vs. whole pham reports. Requests for user input is always welcome.