GenColors -- annotation and comparative genomics of prokaryotes made easy
What you can do:
A web-based software/database system aimed at an improved and accelerated annotation of prokaryotic genomes.
Highlights:
- GenColors offers a seamless integration of data from ongoing sequencing projects and annotated genomic sequences obtained from GenBank.
- A variety of export/import filters manages an effective data flow from sequence assembly and manipulation programs (e.g., GAP4) to GenColors and back as well as to standard GenBank file(s).
- The genome comparison tools include best bidirectional hits, gene conservation, syntenies, and gene core sets.
- Precomputed UniProt matches allow annotation and analysis in an effective manner.
- In addition to these analysis options, base-specific quality data (coverage and confidence) can also be handled if available.
- The GenColors system can be used both for annotation purposes in ongoing genome projects and as an analysis tool for finished genomes.
- GenColors comes in two types, as dedicated genome browsers and as the Jena Prokaryotic Genome Viewer (JPGV).
- Dedicated genome browsers contain genomic information on a set of related genomes and offer a large number of options for genome comparison.
Keywords:
- prokaryote
- prokaryotic genome
- genome annotation
- genome comparison
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This record last updated: 12-16-2008