Ancestral Genomes: A Resource For Reconstructed Ancestral Genes And Genomes Across The Tree Of Life

For each ancestral gene, we assign a stable identifier, and provide additional information designed to facilitate analysis: an inferred name (based on its descendants in extant genomes), a reconstructed protein sequence, a set of inferred Gene Ontology (GO) annotations, and a “proxy gene” for each ancestral gene, defined as the least-diverged descendant of the ancestral gene in a given extant genome.