title: GIST: Genomic island suite of tools for predicting genomic islands in genomic sequences.
abstract: Genomic Islands (GIs) are genomic regions that are originally from other organisms, through a process known as Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT). Detection of GIs plays a significant role in biomedical research since such align genomic regions usually contain important features, such as pathogenic genes. We have developed a use friendly graphic user interface, Genomic Island Suite of Tools (GIST), which is a platform for scientific users to predict GIs. This software package includes five commonly used tools, AlienHunter, IslandPath, Colombo SIGI-HMM, INDeGenIUS and Pai-Ida. It also includes an optimization program EGID that ensembles the result of existing tools for more accurate prediction. The tools in GIST can be used either separately or sequentially. GIST also includes a downloadable feature that facilitates collecting the input genomes automatically from the FTP server of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). GIST was implemented in Java, and was compiled and executed on Linux/Unix operating systems.
  
  
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  The database is available for free at http://www5.esu.edu/cpsc/bioinfo/software/GIST.
authors.forename: Mohammad Shabbir
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hasan
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fazekas
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Dongsheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Che