title: IBS: an illustrator for the presentation and visualization of biological sequences.
abstract: Biological sequence diagrams are fundamental for visualizing various functional elements in protein or nucleotide sequences that enable a summarization and presentation of existing information as well as means of intuitive new discoveries. Here, we present a software package called illustrator of biological sequences (IBS) that can be used for representing the organization of either protein or nucleotide sequences in a convenient, efficient and precise manner. Multiple options are provided in IBS, and biological sequences can be manipulated, recolored or rescaled in a user-defined mode. Also, the final representational artwork can be directly exported into a publication-quality figure.
  
  
  METHODS
  The standalone package of IBS was implemented in JAVA, while the online service was implemented in HTML5 and JavaScript. Both the standalone package and online service are freely available at http://ibs.biocuckoo.org.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  renjian.sysu@gmail.com or xueyu@hust.edu.cn
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of High Performance Computing, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.
authors.forename: Wenzhong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Yubin
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authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Jiyong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Xiaotong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.affiliation: Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
authors.forename: Zhixiang
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authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Project Group Personalized Tumor Therapy, 93053 Regensburg, Germany and.
authors.forename: Urs
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authors.lastname: Lahrmann
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Yueyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of High Performance Computing, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins