title: AnnotationSketch: a genome annotation drawing library.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  To analyse the vast amount of genome annotation data available today, a visual representation of genomic features in a given sequence range is required. We developed a C library which provides layout and drawing capabilities for annotation features. It supports several common input and output formats and can easily be integrated into custom C applications. To exemplify the use of AnnotationSketch in other languages, we provide bindings to the scripting languages Ruby, Python and Lua.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The software is available under an open-source license as part of GenomeTools (http://genometools.org/annotationsketch.html).
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. steinbiss@zbh.uni-hamburg.de
authors.forename: Sascha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Steinbiss
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gremme
authors.forename: Christin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schärfer
authors.forename: Malte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mader
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurtz
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D016678:Genome; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface