title: ROBIN: a tool for genome rearrangement of block-interchanges.
abstract: ROBIN is a web server for analyzing genome rearrangement of block-interchanges between two chromosomal genomes. It takes two or more linear/circular chromosomes as its input, and computes the number of minimum block-interchange rearrangements between any two input chromosomes for transforming one chromosome into another and also determines an optimal scenario taking this number of rearrangements. The input can be either bacterial-size sequence data or landmark-order data. If the input is sequence data, ROBIN will automatically search for the identical landmarks that are the homologous/conserved regions shared by all the input sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC. cllu@mail.nctu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Chin Lung
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Tsui Ching
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ying Chih
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chuan Yi
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D015321:Gene Rearrangement / Q000235:genetics*; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012984:Software