AnnotationSketch: a genome annotation drawing library.
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).
Steinbiss
Sascha
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Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. steinbiss@zbh.uni-hamburg.de
Gremme
Gordon
G
Schärfer
Christin
C
Mader
Malte
M
Kurtz
Stefan
S
D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D016678:Genome; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface