title: Three views of microbial genomes.
abstract: We describe here GenomeAtlases as a method for visualising three different aspects of complete microbial chromosomes: repeats, DNA structural characteristics, and base composition. We have applied this method to all publicly available genomes, and find a general strand preference of global repeats. The atlas for the Mycoplasma genitalium genome is presented as an example, and results from all three views are consistent with known characteristics of the genome.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Biotechnology, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Friis
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Ussery
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000235:genetics; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial