gene structure visualisation software needed

[Raf Podowski]

Try belvu.  You can create boxes and lines of different colors.  It's
designed to show sequence features.  Look at this site:

http://www.cgr.ki.se/cgr/groups/sonnhammer/Belvu.html


Raf Podowski
Center for Genomics Research
Bioinformatics Unit
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden



Jeroen Raes wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Does anybody know of a program to make 'boxed' representations of gene
> structures in stead of spending hours to draw them?
>
> eg. I give the program a sequence --tacga---catg--------gcat-- or some
> coordinates (3-7,11-14,23-26) and it returns me something like
>
> --[BOX(lenght=5)]---[BOX(length=4)]--------[BOX(length=4)]
>
> ..which would be in jpg or gif or postscript, whatever...
>
> It would also be nice if certain positions could be given different
> colours (eg ATG, ORF, conserved areas,...)
>
> thanks!
> --
>
> Jeroen Raes
> Research group of Bioinformatics
> Department of Plant Genetics   Tel:32.9.264 87 20   Fax:32.9.264 50 08
> University of Ghent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 GENT, Belgium
> Laboratoire Associe de l'INRA
> Vlaams interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)
> jerae at gengenp.rug.ac.be         http://www.plantgenetics.rug.ac.be