Phylo-VISTA: interactive visualization of multiple DNA sequence alignments
Author(s) -
Nameeta Shah,
Olivier Couronne,
L Pennacchio,
Michael Brudno,
Serafim Batzoglou,
E. Wes Bethel,
Edward M. Rubin,
Bernd Hamann,
Inna Dubchak
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg459
Subject(s) - visualization , phylogenetic tree , computer science , sequence (biology) , similarity (geometry) , sequence alignment , multiple sequence alignment , alignment free sequence analysis , plug in , data visualization , interactive visualization , data mining , information retrieval , biology , artificial intelligence , genetics , image (mathematics) , peptide sequence , gene , programming language
The power of multi-sequence comparison for biological discovery is well established. The need for new capabilities to visualize and compare cross-species alignment data is intensified by the growing number of genomic sequence datasets being generated for an ever-increasing number of organisms. To be efficient these visualization algorithms must support the ability to accommodate consistently a wide range of evolutionary distances in a comparison framework based upon phylogenetic relationships.
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