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GEnView: a gene-centric, phylogeny-based comparative genomics pipeline for bacterial genomes and plasmids.

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Summary

Comparing genomic loci of a given bacterial gene across strains and species can provide insights into their evolution, including information on e.g. acquired mobility, the degree of conservation between different taxa or indications of horizontal gene transfer events. While thousands of bacterial genomes are available to date, there is no software that facilitates comparisons of individual gene loci for a large number of genomes. GEnView (Genetic Environment View) is a Python-based pipeline for the comparative analysis of gene-loci in a large number of bacterial genomes, providing users with automated, taxon-selective access to the >800.000 genomes and plasmids currently available in the NCBI Assembly and RefSeq databases, and is able to process local genomes that are not deposited at NCBI, enabling searches for genomic sequences and to analyze their genetic environments through the interactive visualization and extensive metadata files created by GEnView.

Availability and implementation

GEnView is implemented in Python 3. Instructions for download and usage can be found at https://github.com/EbmeyerSt/GEnView under GLP3.

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Ebmeyer S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8896611 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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GEnView: a gene-centric, phylogeny-based comparative genomics pipeline for bacterial genomes and plasmids.

Ebmeyer Stefan S Coertze Roelof Dirk RD Berglund Fanny F Kristiansson Erik E Larsson D G Joakim DGJ

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20220301 6

<h4>Summary</h4>Comparing genomic loci of a given bacterial gene across strains and species can provide insights into their evolution, including information on e.g. acquired mobility, the degree of conservation between different taxa or indications of horizontal gene transfer events. While thousands of bacterial genomes are available to date, there is no software that facilitates comparisons of individual gene loci for a large number of genomes. GEnView (Genetic Environment View) is a Python-bas ...[more]

PMID: 34951622

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Dataset Information

GEnView: a gene-centric, phylogeny-based comparative genomics pipeline for bacterial genomes and plasmids.

Summary

Availability and implementation

Supplementary information

Publications

GEnView: a gene-centric, phylogeny-based comparative genomics pipeline for bacterial genomes and plasmids.

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