PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Maria Nattestad
AU  - Chen-Shan Chin
AU  - Michael C. Schatz
TI  - Ribbon: Visualizing complex genome alignments and structural variation
AID  - 10.1101/082123
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 082123
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/20/082123.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/20/082123.full
AB  - To the Editor Visualization has played an extremely important role in the current genomic revolution to inspect and understand variants, expression patterns, evolutionary changes, and a number of other relationships1–3. However, most of the information in read-to-reference or genome-genome alignments is lost for structural variations in the one-dimensional views of most genome browsers showing only reference coordinates. Instead, structural variations captured by long reads or assembled contigs often need more context to understand, including alignments and other genomic information from multiple chromosomes.