title: Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes.
abstract: The newest version of MUMmer easily handles comparisons of large eukaryotic genomes at varying evolutionary distances, as demonstrated by applications to multiple genomes. Two new graphical viewing tools provide alternative ways to analyze genome alignments. The new system is the first version of MUMmer to be released as open-source software. This allows other developers to contribute to the code base and freely redistribute the code. The MUMmer sources are available at http://www.tigr.org/software/mummer.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurtz
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Phillippy
authors.forename: Arthur L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Delcher
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smoot
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shumway
authors.forename: Corina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Antonescu
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Salzberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000235:genetics; D003196:Computer Graphics; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics; D016678:Genome; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software