Given a ortho table generated with generate_ortholog_tables_all, this function will determine a core set of orthologs that are shared between all species.

retrieve_core_orthologs(ortho_tables, species_order)

Arguments

ortho_tables

a ortho tables that was generated with generate_ortholog_tables_all.

species_order

a character string specifying species names listed in the order of phylogenetic/taxonomic distance from the query species. The species names must match with the species names present in the ortho_tables.

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost