Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer

Mitchell J Sullivan; Nicola K Petty; Scott A Beatson

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr039

Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer

Bioinformatics. 2011 Apr 1;27(7):1009-10. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr039. Epub 2011 Jan 28.

Authors

Mitchell J Sullivan¹, Nicola K Petty, Scott A Beatson

Affiliation

¹ Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.

Abstract

Easyfig is a Python application for creating linear comparison figures of multiple genomic loci with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. BLAST comparisons between multiple genomic regions, ranging from single genes to whole prokaryote chromosomes, can be generated, visualized and interactively coloured, enabling a rapid transition between analysis and the preparation of publication quality figures.

Availability: Easyfig is freely available (under a GPL license) for download (for Mac OS X, Unix and Microsoft Windows) from the SourceForge web site: http://easyfig.sourceforge.net/.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Computer Graphics*
Genome
Genomics / methods*
Software*