DNA Features Viewer
DNA Features Viewer renders visual representations of DNA sequence annotations to provide customizable, layout-optimized plots for bioinformatics analysis.
Key Features:
- Customizable Visualization: Configurable colors, labels, and highlights for sequence features.
- Layout Optimization: Intelligent layout adjustments to maintain readability with dense or overlapping annotations and long labels.
- Automatic Plot Generation: Automatically generates clear, concise plots for complex sequences with numerous overlapping features.
- Integration and Compatibility: Integrates with Matplotlib and Biopython and exports figures to PNG, JPEG, SVG, and PDF.
Scientific Applications:
- DNA sequence annotation visualization: Visualizing annotated features along DNA sequences for analysis and communication.
- Genomics: Displaying genomic feature annotations for genome analysis.
- Transcriptomics: Representing transcript-related annotations in sequence context.
- Epigenetics: Visualizing epigenetic-associated annotations relative to DNA sequence coordinates.
Methodology:
Plots DNA sequence annotations with priority on readability and customization, leveraging Python libraries such as Matplotlib and Biopython to process annotation inputs and generate optimized visual outputs (PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF).
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Details
- License:
- MIT
- Tool Type:
- library
- Programming Languages:
- Python
- Added:
- 1/18/2021
- Last Updated:
- 3/1/2021
Operations
Publications
Zulkower V, Rosser S. DNA Features Viewer, a sequence annotations formatting and plotting library for Python. Unknown Journal. 2020. doi:10.1101/2020.01.09.900589.