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The comparison of animal species determination (barcoding) methods
Maťátková, Jana ; Vaněk, Daniel (advisor) ; Sember, Alexandr (referee)
Species identification is the key element in many scientific fields, from diversity studies to forensic science and the food industry. Traditional morphological methods based on the visual distinction of anatomical features often encounter limits associated with distinguishing morphologically similar animals. However, with the rise of molecular methods, a new perspective has emerged, namely DNA analysis, which offers higher accuracy and independence from external factors. This bachelor's thesis presents a detailed overview and a comparsion of various molecular methods used to identify animals. It focuses on a thorough evaluation of the principles of these methods and their effectiveness. Special attention is paid to target sequences associated with DNA barcoding, its universal use and limitations that may arise depending on specific animal species. An important element of successful identification is the existence and use of databases that serve as a source of reference data to compare sequences from unknown samples.
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Similarity/dissimilarity analysis of genomic data on the basis of graphical representation
Těthal, Jiří ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
The work deals with the identification of species of animal through the density of nucleotids of mitochondrial gene CO1. In the first part the theory summarized information about DNA barcoding and the mitochondria, cellular organel that with this method is closely related. The second part deals with virtually comparing different sequences using the density of nucleotides. For this it was created program, which uses two functions, the first of the specified nucleotide sequence calculates the density and one can compare the density by distance methods.
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Character-based methods for DNA barcoding
Kalianková, Kateřina ; Sedlář, Karel (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
This work deals with character-based DNA barcoding. DNA barcoding and character-based DNA barcoding methods are described in the introduction. Another part contains information of method CAOS (Characteristic Attributes Organization) and method BLOG (Barcoding with LOGic). Programs are described in the practical part. The end contains results.
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Fuzzy classification of DNA sequences
Těthal, Jiří ; Maděránková, Denisa (referee) ; Škutková, Helena (advisor)
The work deals with the fuzzy classification of DNA sequences. In the first part the theory summarized information about Fuzzy logic and methods of its use in the classification of biological sequence data. The second part is practically deal with the classification algorithm for assessing the similarity of sequences. Specifically, the dividing of coding and non-coding parts of the sequence and the use of fuzzy classification in DNA barcoding.
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Identification of Organisms Based on Analysis of Nucleotide Density Vectors
Maděránková, Denisa ; Babula, Petr (referee) ; Schwarz, Daniel (referee) ; Provazník, Ivo (advisor)
Most methods for analysis of genomic data work with symbolic sequences. Numerically represented genomic sequences can be analyzed by signal processing methods. A new method of numerical representation of DNA sequences, nucleotide density vectors, is proposed in this thesis. Usability of this method for purposes of molecular species identification is tested on DNA barcoding sequences. DNA barcoding is modern and popular methodology based on comparison of short mitochondrial DNA sequences. Beside species identification by proposed method based on nucleotide density vectors, higher taxa rank identification (e.g. families) was also tested. Furthermore, dendrograms were constructed from standardly used evolutionary distances and distances between nucleotide density vectors and the dendrograms were compared.
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Effect of different numerical representations of DNA on molecular taxonomy
Blaschová, Eliška ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
This paper introduces the classical and molecular taxonomy used for classification of organisms. It represents the direction of DNA barcoding as a possibility to identify unknown organism. Acquired mitochondrial DNA sequences in DNA barcoding can by transform by suitable method to numerical representation that will properly inform about the organisms relationship to other taxa. In this work, we consider three methods of numerical representation: the 1st and 4th quadrant EIIP values and 3D numerical representation reduction. The practical part is programmed identification analysis, which assigns the test organisms reference organism. Testing is performed at 4 reference files and analyzed 5 files. The work summarized the success assigning the correct reference for the selected method of numerical representation.
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Character-based methods for DNA barcoding
Kalianková, Kateřina ; Sedlář, Karel (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
This work deals with character-based DNA barcoding. DNA barcoding and character-based DNA barcoding methods are described in the introduction. Another part contains information of method CAOS (Characteristic Attributes Organization), method BLOG (Barcoding with LOGic) and method BLAST. Programs are described in the practical part. The end contains results.
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Effect of nucleotide density vector's reduction on molecular identification of organisms
Kosková, Markéta ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
This work deals with the effect of nucleotide density vector's reduction on molecular identification of organisms. At the beginning of the theoretical part, the work explains the concept of species, its development and its mutations. The next section provides basics of taxonomy, particularly the molecular taxonomy and DNA barcoding, with a description of mitochondrial DNA and its usability in the identification of species. The end of the theoretical part provides information about the nucleotide density vectors which the practical part is focused on. Analysis of auxiliary values on nucleotide density vectors was accomplished in Matlab by evaluating 188 real DNA barcode sequences. The identification analysis of organism was performed with the best auxiliary value for 4 datasets of the reference barcode sequences and 5 datasets of analyzed sequences of same organisms. Afterwards, the evaluation of the analysis was done by using separate nucleotide density vectors of individual nucleotides and their amounts.
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Mitochondrial DNA for molecular taxonomy
Kalianková, Kateřina ; Babula, Petr (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
This work deals with mitochondrial DNA and molecular taxonomy. Structure and composition of animal cell, deoxyribonucleic acids and mitochondrial ribonucleic acids are described in the introduction. Another part contains information of DNA barcoding and numerical representation of genomic sequences. Programs are described in the practical part.
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Analysis of animal mitochondrial genes for DNA barcoding
Brabencová, Klára ; Škutková, Helena (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
The aim of this work is a literature review on the topic of the mitochondrial genome and DNA barcoding, building a dataset of mitochondrial sequences from GenBank database and creatione of a software function for extraction of individual genes that are present in the mitochondrial genome. This function was developed in Matlab. DNA barcoding is a method that uses short DNA sequence of mitochondrial genome for identification of species. There is no comprehensive work examining the appropriateness of different mitochondrial genes. This aim investigates the potential of other mitochondrial genes and evaluate their effectiveness for DNA barcoding and calculation of intra-and interspecific variability.
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