GenomeMatcher: a graphical user interface for DNA sequence comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of available genome sequences is increasing, and easy-to-use software that enables efficient comparative analysis is needed.

Results

We developed GenomeMatcher, a stand-alone software package for Mac OS X. GenomeMatcher executes BLAST and MUMmer, and the detected similarities are displayed in two-dimensional and parallel views with similarity values indicated by color. Selection and re-computation of any subregions is easily performed and allows flexible and in-depth analysis. Furthermore, symbols for annotation data are displayed along the views, and the user can relate the genomic differences with annotation data. While bl2seq allows sub-Giga base comparison, three alignment programs, bl2seq, MAFFT and ClustalW, together with a dotmatch program allow

SUBMITTER: Ohtsubo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2553346 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature