title: GIV: A Tool for Genomic Islands Visualization.
abstract: A Genomic Islands (GI) is a chunk of DNA sequence in a genome whose origin can be traced back to other organisms or viruses. The detection of GIs plays an indispensable role in biomedical research, due to the fact that GIs are highly related to special functionalities such as disease-causing GIs - pathogenicity islands. It is also very important to visualize genomic islands, as well as the supporting features corresponding to the genomic islands in the genome. We have developed a program, Genomic Island Visualization (GIV), which displays the locations of genomic islands in a genome, as well as the corresponding supportive feature information for GIs. GIV was implemented in C++, and was compiled and executed on Linux/Unix operating systems.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  GIV is freely available for non-commercial use at http://www5.esu.edu/cpsc/bioinfo/software/GIV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301, USA.
authors.forename: Dongsheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Che
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Genomic islands; Prokaryotic genomes; Sequence analysis; Visualization