title: BacMap: an interactive picture atlas of annotated bacterial genomes.
abstract: BacMap is an interactive visual database containing fully labeled, zoomable and searchable chromosome maps from more than 170 bacterial (archaebacterial and eubacterial) species. It uses a recently developed visualization tool (CGView) to generate high-resolution circular genome maps from sequence feature information. Each map includes an interface that allows the image to be expanded and rotated. In the default view, identified genes are drawn to scale and colored according to coding directions. When a region of interest is expanded, gene labels are displayed. Each label is hyperlinked to a custom 'gene card' which provides several fields of information concerning the corresponding DNA and protein sequences. Each genome map is searchable via a local BLAST search and a gene name/synonym search. BacMap is freely available at http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/BacMap/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Science and Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E8.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stothard
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van Domselaar
authors.forename: Savita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shrivastava
authors.forename: Anchi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cruz
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ellison
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Wishart
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D014584:User-Computer Interface