Synorth [snôrth], named in combination of "synteny" and "ortholog", is designed for the study of evolutionary changes of genomic regulatory blocks (GRBs) in vertebrate genomes, and especially the changes following the whole-genome duplication in teleost fish, by tracing the ortholog genes gain and loss in ancient synteny blocks.

What can Synorth offer?

Synorth provides three different display modes:

Locus Browser shows the GRB gene and HCNE content in reference genome coordinates;

Table Browser assigns a scenario code to each gene in a GRB;

Tree Browser displays an idealized gene tree of the GRB gene content.

Who maintains the site?

Synorth is maintained by Boris Lenhard's research group at the Bergen Center for Computational Science, University of Bergen, Norway. Questions and comments can be sent to boris.lenhard at bccs.uib.no, or xianjun.dong at bccs.uib.no.

How to cite Synorth?

Synorth is now accepted by Genome Biology. You can access the paper here. Proper citation will be available soon.