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VIRS: A visual tool for identifying restriction sites in multiple DNA sequences
Author(s) -
Chen Xiang,
Luo Cong,
Ma Xiaoxia,
Chen Ming
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
biotechnology progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.572
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6033
pISSN - 8756-7938
DOI - 10.1002/btpr.259
Subject(s) - restriction enzyme , computer science , visualization , restriction site , restriction map , restriction fragment , personalization , matching (statistics) , database , computational biology , data mining , artificial intelligence , information retrieval , dna , biology , world wide web , genetics , base sequence , mathematics , statistics
VIRS (A visual tool for identifying restriction sites in multiple DNA sequences) is an interactive web-based program designed for restriction endonuclease cut sites prediction and visualization. It can afford to analyze multiple DNA sequences simultaneously and produce visual restriction maps with several useful options intended for users' customization. These options also perform in-depth analysis of the restriction maps, such as providing virtual electrophoretic result for digested fragments. Different from other analytical tools, VIRS not only displays visual outputs but also provides the detailed properties of restriction endonucleases that are commercially available. All the information of these enzymes is stored in our internal database, which is updated monthly from the manufacturers' web pages. It is freely available online at http://bis.zju.edu.cn/virs/index.html.