Title

Authors

Affiliation

Department of Computer Science, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301, USA

Email

dche@po-box.esu.edu; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Software

Date

Received September 30, 2013; Accepted October 01, 2013; Published October 16, 2013

A Genomic Islands (GI) is a chunk of DNA sequence in a genome whose origin can be traced back to other organisms or viruses. The detection of GIs plays an indispensable role in biomedical research, due to the fact that GIs are highly related to special functionalities such as disease-causing GIs - pathogenicity islands. It is also very important to visualize genomic islands, as well as the supporting features corresponding to the genomic islands in the genome. We have developed a program, Genomic Island Visualization (GIV), which displays the locations of genomic islands in a genome, as well as the corresponding supportive feature information for GIs. GIV was implemented in C++, and was compiled and executed on Linux/Unix operating systems.

Availability

http://www5.esu.edu/cpsc/bioinfo/software/GIV

Keywords

Prokaryotic genomes; Genomic islands; Sequence analysis; Visualization.

Citation

Che & Wang,  Bioinformation 9(17): 879-882 (2013)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.