...l newly acquired genes in a particular strain.
Availability: The method is publicly available athttp://research.haifa.ac.il/~ssagi/software/nearHGT.zip
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the transfer of genetic material between organisms, is crucial for genetic innovation and the evolution of genome architecture. Existing HGT detection algorithms rely on a strong phylogenetic signal distinguishing the transferred sequence from ancestral (vertically...