GenePalette: Software For Genome Sequence Navigation And Analysis

Technology Description: GenePalette is a powerful cross-platform and cross-species bioinformatics tool for genome sequence visualization and navigation. Written in Java, this program allows users on Mac, PC, or UNIX platforms to access genome sequence data quickly and easily through a unified interface. Users can download from NCBI's GenBank database large or small segments of genome sequence from a variety of organisms (e.g., yeast, human, fly, worm, mouse, plants), preserving the gene annotation that is associated with that sequence. Sequence elements of interest (transcription factor binding sites and other regulatory motifs, restriction enzyme sites, primer sequences, SNPs, microsatellites, etc.) can be searched for and identified in the loaded sequence, and then clearly visualized within a colorful graphical representation of gene organization and intron/exon structure. Among the many features that GenePalette provides are intuitive clickable user interface elements; customizable libraries of user-defined sequence features; the ability to export both graphical and nucleotide views of genomic sequence data in GIF format; and a restriction enzyme site library containing more than 200 sites.

See http://www.genepalette.org

Case Number:  SD2002-853

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