title: FeatureStack: Perl module for comparative visualization of gene features.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  FeatureStack is a Perl module for the automatic generation of multi-gene images. FeatureStack takes BioPerl-compliant gene or transcript features as input and renders them side by side using a user-defined BioPerl glyph. Output images can be generated in SVG or PNG format. FeatureStack comes with a new BioPerl glyph, decorated_gene, which can highlight protein features on top of gene models. Used in combination, FeatureStack and decorated_gene enable rapid and automated generation of annotation-rich images of stacked gene models that greatly facilitate evolutionary studies of related gene structures and gene families.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bio-Draw-FeatureStack and Bio-Graphics-glyph-decorated_gene are freely available at the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) and GitHub.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  chenn@sfu.ca
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Frech
authors.forename: Caleb
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Choo
authors.forename: Nansheng
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D005091:Exons; D005796:Genes; D007438:Introns; D054730:Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs; D011506:Proteins; D050436:Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins