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Table 3 GUI and internet-based applications that produce circular comparison images for prokaryote genomes

From: BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG): simple prokaryote genome comparisons

 

BRIG

DNAPlotter[12]

CGView Server[13]

GeneWiz Browser[14]

Microbial Genome Viewer[10]

Genome Projector[11]

Supports custom annotations

X

X

X

X

 

X

Search and load annotations from existing files (e.g. Genbank, EMBL)

X

X

    

Allows users to use their own genome data

X

X

X

X

 

X

Use Multi-FASTA as reference sequences

X

X

    

Internally handles multiple genome comparisons

X

 

X1

X1

  

Provides percentage identity and e-value filtering for BLAST

X

 

X

X

  

Supports read mapping and visualisation

X

  

X

 

X

Natively supports contig and scaffold visualisation

X

     

Visualises Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COGS) functional grouping.

 

X

X

X

X

X

Can produce linear images

 

X

  

X

X

Shows an interactive image

 

X

  

X

X

  1. 1 CGView Server and GeneWiz Browser only support three and seven genome comparisons on a single image, respectively.