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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on December 23, 2008
Bioinformatics 2009 25(4):533-534; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn657
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AnnotationSketch: a genome annotation drawing library

Sascha Steinbiss *,{dagger}, Gordon Gremme {dagger}, Christin Schärfer , Malte Mader and Stefan Kurtz

Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstraße 43, 20146 Hamburg, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.


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Summary: To analyse the vast amount of genome annotation data available today, a visual representation of genomic features in a given sequence range is required. We developed a C library which provides layout and drawing capabilities for annotation features. It supports several common input and output formats and can easily be integrated into custom C applications. To exemplify the use of AnnotationSketch in other languages, we provide bindings to the scripting languages Ruby, Python and Lua.

Availability: The software is available under an open-source license as part of GenomeTools (http://genometools.org/annotationsketch.html).

Contact: steinbiss{at}zbh.uni-hamburg.de

{dagger}The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.

Associate Editor: John Quackenbush

Received on September 25, 2008; revised on December 3, 2008; accepted on December 19, 2008

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