xenoGI

xenoGI is a software tool to identify genomic islands and map the origins of bacteria clades. The xenoGI algorithm includes the reconstruction of the history of gene families, and the package utilizes MUSCLE, FastTree, and GeneRax.

Topic

Genomics;Nucleic acid sites, features and motifs;Microbiology;Phylogeny

Detail

  • Operation: Phylogenetic tree analysis;Sequence feature detection

  • Software interface: Web user interface

  • Language: Python

  • License: GNU General Public License v3

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 3.0.0

  • Credit: HHMI Undergraduate Science Education.

  • Input: -

  • Output: -

  • Contact: Eliot C. Bush bush@hmc.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Stable

Publications

  • xenoGI: reconstructing the history of genomic island insertions in clades of closely related bacteria.
  • Bush EC, Clark AE, DeRanek CA, Eng A, Forman J, Heath K, Lee AB, Stoebel DM, Wang Z, Wilber M, Wu H. xenoGI: reconstructing the history of genomic island insertions in clades of closely related bacteria. BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Feb 5;19(1):32. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2038-0. PMID: 29402213; PMCID: PMC5799925.
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2038-0
  • PMID: 29402213
  • PMC: PMC5799925

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