TaxonGap: a visualization tool for intra- and inter-species variation among individual biomarkers.
Selection of optimal biomarkers for the identification of different operational taxonomic units (OTUs) may be a hard and tedious task, especially when phylogenetic trees for multiple genes need to be compared. With TaxonGap we present a novel and easy-to-handle software tool that allows visual comparison of the discriminative power of multiple biomarkers for a set of OTUs. The compact graphical output allows for easy comparison and selection of individual biomarkers.


BACKGROUND
Graphical User Interface; Executable JAVA archive file, source code, supplementary information and sample files can be downloaded from the website: http://www.kermit.ugent.be/taxongap
Slabbinck
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KERMIT, Research Unit Knowledge-based Systems, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, Ghent, Belgium. Bram.Slabbinck@UGent.be
Dawyndt
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Martens
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De Vos
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De Baets
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D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity; D014584:User-Computer Interface
D015415:Biomarkers