title: IslandViewer: an integrated interface for computational identification and visualization of genomic islands.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Genomic islands (clusters of genes of probable horizontal origin; GIs) play a critical role in medically important adaptations of bacteria. Recently, several computational methods have been developed to predict GIs that utilize either sequence composition bias or comparative genomics approaches. IslandViewer is a web accessible application that provides the first user-friendly interface for obtaining precomputed GI predictions, or predictions from user-inputted sequence, using the most accurate methods for genomic island prediction: IslandPick, IslandPath-DIMOB and SIGI-HMM. The graphical interface allows easy viewing and downloading of island data in multiple formats, at both the chromosome and gene level, for method-specific, or overlapping, GI predictions.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The IslandViewer web service is available at http://www.pathogenomics.sfu.ca/islandviewer and the source code is freely available under the GNU GPL license.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Morgan G I
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Langille
authors.forename: Fiona S L
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Brinkman
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D044404:Genomic Islands; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface