Comparative analysis of phylogenetic profiles for the enzymatic characterization of fungal group
Abstract
We try to characterize the evolutionary origin of the enzymatic repertoire of different fungal groups. The characteristics for each of the groups studied are determined through the application of data mining method on enzyme profiles previously determined by comparative genomics. Through the presentation of results for taxonomic groups Agaricomycetes and Pezizomycota, we show that the application of supervised learning methods is effective in extracting information from phylogenetic profiles. We extract specific enzyme activities combinations for each taxonomic groups covered by our analysis. Our approach also enables us to highlight the existence of probable horizontal gene transfers.