Open AccessBLAST-XYPlot Viewer: A Tool for Performing BLAST in Whole-Genome Sequenced Bacteria/Archaea and Visualize Whole Results Simultaneously
Author(s) -
Yagul Pedraza-Pérez,
Rodrigo Alberto Cuevas-Vede,
Ángel Bernardo Canto-Gómez,
Liliana López-Pliego,
Rosa-María Gutiérrez-Rios,
Ismael Hernández-Lucas,
Gustavo Trinidad Rubín Linares,
Ygnacio MartínezLaguna,
Jesús Francisco López Olguín,
Luis Ernesto Fuentes-Ramírez
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
g3 genes genomes genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.468
H-Index - 66
ISSN - 2160-1836
DOI - 10.1534/g3.118.200220
Subject(s) - replicon , genome , biology , visualization , whole genome sequencing , computational biology , bacterial genome size , gene , genetics , computer science , data mining
One of the most commonly used tools to compare protein or DNA sequences against databases is BLAST. We introduce a web tool that allows the performance of BLAST-searches of protein/DNA sequences in whole-genome sequenced bacteria/archaea, and displays a large amount of BLAST-results simultaneously. The circular bacterial replicons are projected as horizontal lines with fixed length of 360, representing the degrees of a circle. A coordinate system is created with length of the replicon along the x -axis and the number of replicon used on the y -axis. When a query sequence matches with a gene/protein of a particular replicon, the BLAST-results are depicted as an " x,y " position in a specially adapted plot. This tool allows the visualization of the results from the whole data to a particular gene/protein in real time with low computational resources.
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