Inparanoid

Inparanoid is a tool that helps scientists compare different genomes. Think of genomes as a set of instructions that tell an organism how to grow and function. Humans have a genome, dogs have a genome, worms have a genome, and so on.

Scientists use inparanoid to look at how similar the genomes of different species are. For example, they might want to compare the genome of humans with the genome of mice to see which genes are similar and which are different.

When they use inparanoid, they feed it the genome sequences of two or more species they want to compare, and the tool compares them gene by gene. It looks for genes that are similar, meaning they have a similar function or structure, even if they aren't identical.

Once inparanoid has found all the similar genes, it creates a table that shows which genes are present in each species, and how similar they are. Scientists can use this information to learn more about the evolution of different species and how they are related to each other.

Overall, inparanoid is a powerful tool that helps scientists understand the connections between different living things, and how they are similar or different at the genetic level.