MGcV: the microbial genomic context viewer for comparative genome analysis

BMC Genomics

Software

Robert Kerkhoven¹  Roland J Siezen²  Lex Overmars³  Christof Francke⁴ 

[1] Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28, 6525GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28, 6525GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Microbial Bioinformatics, Eikelakkers 2, 6711TE, Ede, The Netherlands;Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28, 6525GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;TI Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700AN, Wageningen, The Netherlands;Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28, 6525GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;TI Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700AN, Wageningen, The Netherlands;Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;CFLSc, Prinsenhof 12, 5616TE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;

关键词: Comparative genomics;    Function annotation;    Genome visualization;    Network reconstruction;    Regulatory element;    Transcription regulation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-14-209

 received in 2012-11-22, accepted in 2013-03-22,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundConserved gene context is used in many types of comparative genome analyses. It is used to provide leads on gene function, to guide the discovery of regulatory sequences, but also to aid in the reconstruction of metabolic networks. We present the Microbial Genomic context Viewer (MGcV), an interactive, web-based application tailored to strengthen the practice of manual comparative genome context analysis for bacteria.ResultsMGcV is a versatile, easy-to-use tool that renders a visualization of the genomic context of any set of selected genes, genes within a phylogenetic tree, genomic segments, or regulatory elements. It is tailored to facilitate laborious tasks such as the interactive annotation of gene function, the discovery of regulatory elements, or the sequence-based reconstruction of gene regulatory networks. We illustrate that MGcV can be used in gene function annotation by visually integrating information on prokaryotic genes, like their annotation as available from NCBI with other annotation data such as Pfam domains, sub-cellular location predictions and gene-sequence characteristics such as GC content. We also illustrate the usefulness of the interactive features that allow the graphical selection of genes to facilitate data gathering (e.g. upstream regions, ID’s or annotation), in the analysis and reconstruction of transcription regulation. Moreover, putative regulatory elements and their corresponding scores or data from RNA-seq and microarray experiments can be uploaded, visualized and interpreted in (ranked-) comparative context maps. The ranked maps allow the interpretation of predicted regulatory elements and experimental data in light of each other.ConclusionMGcV advances the manual comparative analysis of genes and regulatory elements by providing fast and flexible integration of gene related data combined with straightforward data retrieval. MGcV is available at http://mgcv.cmbi.ru.nl.

【 授权许可】

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© Overmars et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013