Study of the phenomenon of gene overlap in bacterial genomes using bioinformatics tools

Identifier:  TFG:6612

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG6612

Authors:  Chacón Sánchez, Edgar Pedro

Abstract:
The phenomenon of gene overlap occurs when two coding sequences of two genes share at least one nucleotide. This phenomenon is extensively studied in viruses, but to a much lesser extent in bacteria. In this study, the different types of overlaps and their characteristics are analyzed in 5,223 bacterial genomes, which have been treated bioinformatically using a program coded and supervised by the authors of this study, resulting in more than 3 million pairs of overlapping genes, which have been analyzed for study.