IslandViewer: An integrated interface for computational identification and visualization of genomic islands

Morgan G.I. Langille; Fiona S.L. Brinkman

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp030

IslandViewer: An integrated interface for computational identification and visualization of genomic islands

Morgan G.I. Langille, Fiona S.L. Brinkman

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Abstract

Summary: Genomic islands (clusters of genes of probable horizontal origin; GIs) play a critical role in medically important adaptations of bacteria. Recently, several computational methods have been developed to predict GIs that utilize either sequence composition bias or comparative genomics approaches. IslandViewer is a web accessible application that provides the first user-friendly interface for obtaining precomputed GI predictions, or predictions from user-inputted sequence, using the most accurate methods for genomic island prediction: IslandPick, IslandPath-DIMOB and SIGI-HMM. The graphical interface allows easy viewing and downloading of island data in multiple formats, at both the chromosome and gene level, for method-specific, or overlapping, GI predictions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	664-665
Number of pages	2
Journal	Bioinformatics
Volume	25
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp030
Publication status	Published - Mar 2009
Externally published	Yes

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M.G.I.L. also holds a MSFHR scholarship, while F.S.L.B. is a MSFHR Senior Scholar and CIHR New Investigator. Infrastructure support was also provided by Genome Canada/GenomeBC, SFU CTEF and IBM.

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Statistics and Probability
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Computer Science Applications
Computational Theory and Mathematics
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