SHOOT.bio is a phylogenetic search engineIt searches your query sequence against a database of gene families and provides you with a phylogenetic tree with your query sequence grafted into it. You can use SHOOT to:
- Find similar sequences in other organisms (just like BLAST).
- Produce a phylogenetic tree of your gene and its relatives.
- Find the orthologs of your gene in other species.
- Map the evolutionary history of your gene.
- Find the gene family of your gene.