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SwissOrthology is a joint collaboration involving both groups. </p> <p>For feedback, suggestions and questions, please contact us on <a href="mailto:info@swissorthology.ch">info@swissorthology.ch</a>.</p> <h4>Maintenance and development of OMA and OrthoDB</h4> <p>The SwissOrthology project supports the vital maintenance and development of OMA and OrthoDB by helping of keeping both of the resources updated. </p> <h4>Allowing users to query both resources simultaneously</h4> <p>SwissOrthology provides functionality for orthology method-developers and users to retrieve consensus orthology calls derived from OMA and OrthoDB. This uses federated SPARQL queries as a backend to facilitate speedy lookups.</p> <p>SwissOrthology serves as a <a href="/service/search">joint interface</a> between both resources to search for hierarchical orthologs groups for a UniProt protein. </p> <h4>Orthology guidance</h4> <p>SwissOrthology <a href="/service/guide">provides guidance</a> to help prospective users determine which platform is best suited to their needs in terms of type of homologs, species, and analyses. </p>  </div> </div> <noscript> <img referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://matomo.sib.swiss/matomo.php?idsite=51&rec=1&action_name=non-js-access" style="border:0" alt="" /> </noscript>> <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="//stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-136590259-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-136590259-1'); </script> </body> </html>

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