VisGenome: visualization of single and comparative genome representations

Joanna Jakubowska; Ela Hunt; Matthew Chalmers; Martin McBride; Anna F Dominiczak

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm394

VisGenome: visualization of single and comparative genome representations

Bioinformatics. 2007 Oct 1;23(19):2641-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm394.

Authors

Joanna Jakubowska¹, Ela Hunt, Matthew Chalmers, Martin McBride, Anna F Dominiczak

Affiliation

¹ Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland. [email protected]

PMID: 17965437
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm394

Abstract

VisGenome visualizes single and comparative representations for the rat, the mouse and the human chromosomes at different levels of detail. The tool offers smooth zooming and panning which is more flexible than seen in other browsers. It presents information available in Ensembl for single chromosomes, as well as homologies (orthologue predictions including ortholog one2one, apparent ortholog one2one, ortholog many2many) for any two chromosomes from different species. The application can query supporting data from Ensembl by invoking a link in a browser.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Animals
Base Sequence
Chromosome Mapping / methods*
Humans
Mice
Molecular Sequence Data
Rats
Sequence Alignment / methods*
Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Software*
User-Computer Interface*