title: Gepard: a rapid and sensitive tool for creating dotplots on genome scale.
abstract: Gepard provides a user-friendly, interactive application for the quick creation of dotplots. It utilizes suffix arrays to reduce the time complexity of dotplot calculation to Theta(m*log n). A client-server mode, which is a novel feature for dotplot creation software, allows the user to calculate dotplots and color them by functional annotation without any prior downloading of sequence or annotation data.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Both source codes and executable binaries are available at http://mips.gsf.de/services/analysis/gepard
authors.affiliation: Institute for Bioinformatics (MIPS), GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany. krumsiek@in.tum.de
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krumsiek
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rattei
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface