title: GECO--linear visualization for comparative genomics.
abstract: In order to understand and interpret phylogenetic and functional relationships between multiple prokaryotic species, qualitative and quantitative data must be correlated and displayed. GECO allows linear visualization of multiple genomes using a client/server based approach by dynamically creating .png- or .pdf-formatted images. It is able to display ortholog relations calculated using BLASTCLUST by color coding ortholog representations. Irregularities on the genomic level can be identified by anomalous G/C composition. Thus, this software will enable researchers to detect horizontally transferred genes, pseudogenes and insertions/deletions in related microbial genomes.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://bioinfo.mikrobio.med.uni-giessen.de/geco2/GecoMainServlet
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University Frankfurter Strasse 107, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Kuenne
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ghai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hain
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003626:Data Display; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005827:Genetics, Microbial / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity; D014584:User-Computer Interface