OMA is a publicly available resource (
http://omabrowser.org/) that provides orthology predictions among thousands of proteomes from all domains of life. OMA uses evolutionary distance estimates from Smith���Waterman alignments to infer orthologs. A distinct feature among graph-based methods is the witness of nonorthology step in its pipeline, where cases of differential gene losses get detected. OMA provides three different groupings of orthologs: Pairs, Groups, and HOGs. The raw pairwise ortholog relationships form the OMA Pairs, a gene-centric view that lists all the orthologs for a given gene. The OMA Pairs are the primary product of the OMA pipeline. It is a list of high-confidence pairs of orthologous genes. OMA is based on an algorithm that compares genes on the basis of evolutionary distances, considers distance inference uncertainty, and accounts for differential gene losses.