Title

Authors

Affiliation

Centre for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India.

Email

nita@iiit.ac.in; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Web server

Date

Received November 03, 2011; Accepted November 08, 2011; Published November 20, 2011

IGIPT is a web-based integrated platform for the identification of genomic islands (GIs). It incorporates thirteen parametric measures based on anomalous nucleotide composition on a single platform, thus improving the predictive power of a horizontally acquired region, since it is known that no single measure can absolutely predict a horizontally transferred region. The tool filters putative GIs based on standard deviation from genomic average and also provides raw output in MS excel format for further analysis. To facilitate the identification of various structural features, viz., tRNA integration sites, repeats, etc. in the vicinity of GIs, the tool provides option to extract the predicted regions and its flanking regions.

Keywords

genomic islands, horizontal gene transfer

Citation

Jain et al. Bioinformation 7(6): 307-310 (2011)
 

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.