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. 2005 Jan 1;33(Database issue):D317-20.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gki075.

BacMap: an interactive picture atlas of annotated bacterial genomes

Paul Stothard  1 , Gary Van Domselaar, Savita Shrivastava, Anchi Guo, Brian O'Neill, Joseph Cruz, Michael Ellison, David S Wishart
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BacMap: an interactive picture atlas of annotated bacterial genomes

Paul Stothard et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

BacMap is an interactive visual database containing fully labeled, zoomable and searchable chromosome maps from more than 170 bacterial (archaebacterial and eubacterial) species. It uses a recently developed visualization tool (CGView) to generate high-resolution circular genome maps from sequence feature information. Each map includes an interface that allows the image to be expanded and rotated. In the default view, identified genes are drawn to scale and colored according to coding directions. When a region of interest is expanded, gene labels are displayed. Each label is hyperlinked to a custom 'gene card' which provides several fields of information concerning the corresponding DNA and protein sequences. Each genome map is searchable via a local BLAST search and a gene name/synonym search. BacMap is freely available at http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/BacMap/.

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Figure 1
A screenshot montage of the BacMap database. Two different views of the chromosomal map for Aeropyrum pernix are shown in the foreground. The full chromosome map is on the left, while an expanded view providing more detail is on the right. Behind the full chromosome map is a nucleotide composition graph for plasmid lp28-1 from Borrelia burgdorferi, and next to this graph is a gene card displaying textual information about a predicted gene from Staphylococcus aureus. These views of data can be accessed from the BacMap homepage, or from the hyperlinked results of BLAST searches and text searches.
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