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For the protein families with known functional subtypes (a functional split), we developed the software, <jats:italic>SplitTester<\/jats:italic>, to identify potential regions that are responsible for the observed distinct functional subtypes within the same protein family.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Our software, <jats:italic>SplitTester<\/jats:italic>, takes a multiple protein sequences alignment as input, generated from protein members of two subgroups with known functional divergence. <jats:italic>SplitTester<\/jats:italic> was designed to construct the neighbor joining tree (a split cluster) from variable-sized sliding windows across the alignment in a process called <jats:italic>split-clustering<\/jats:italic>. <jats:italic>SplitTester<\/jats:italic> identifies the regions, whose split cluster is consistent with the functional split, but may be inconsistent with the phylogeny of the protein family. We hypothesize that at least some number of these identified regions, which are not following a random mutation process, are responsible for the observed functional split. To test our method, we used reverse transcriptase from a group of <jats:italic>Pseudoviridae<\/jats:italic> retrotransposons: to identify residues specific for diverged primer recognition. Candidate regions were then mapped onto the three dimensional structures of reverse transcriptase. The locations of these amino acids within the enzyme are consistent with their biological roles.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p><jats:italic>SplitTester<\/jats:italic> aims to identify specific domain sequences responsible for functional divergence of subgroups within a protein family. 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