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Web Links
INDELSCAN; a web server for identification of lineage‐specific and pair‐wise indels http://indelscan.genomics.sinica.edu.tw/IndelScan/
InParanoid; a web server for identification of eukaryotic orthologs http://inparanoid.sbc.su.se/
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UCSC genome browser; human–chimpanzee pairwise alignments and multiple sequence alignments of vertebrates http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html
Yale pseudogene database; pseudogenes collection for some eukaryotic genomes http://www.pseudogene.org/background.php