PanExplorer

PanExplorer visualizes and analyzes bacterial pan-genomes to support comparative genomics and evolutionary investigations.


Key Features:

  • Visualization: Creates dynamic, interactive visualizations using hotmap.js, MauveViewer, and CircosJS.
  • Comprehensive Genomic Analysis: Produces a range of genomic analyses and reports for investigation of bacterial pan-genomes, including gene presence/absence assessments.

Scientific Applications:

  • Comparative genomics and evolutionary analysis: Enables investigation of genetic diversity, gene presence/absence variation, and evolutionary relationships among bacterial strains.
  • Anaplasmataceae pan-genome case: Applied to generate a pan-genome for 121 Anaplasmataceae strains (30 Ehrlichia, 15 Anaplasma, 68 Wolbachia) to study interspecies and intraspecies variation.

Methodology:

Perl CGI for server-side scripting; integration of JavaScript libraries hotmap.js, MauveViewer, and CircosJS for interactive visualizations.

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Details

License:
GPL-3.0
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
Perl, JavaScript
Added:
10/19/2022
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Dereeper A, Summo M, Meyer DF. PanExplorer: a web-based tool for exploratory analysis and visualization of bacterial pan-genomes. Bioinformatics. 2022;38(18):4412-4414. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac504. PMID:35916725. PMCID:PMC9477528.

PMID: 35916725
PMCID: PMC9477528
Funding: - European Research and Development Funds: 2018-FED-1084

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