BUGVIEW is a genome browser for comparing the arrangement of genes on a pair of related genomes, and can also be used to view individual genomes. It was developed from the Java applet ‘Der Browser’, but primarily as a standalone application, and is available free for non-commercial work. It was written for comparative studies of bacterial genomes — hence the name — although it handles eukaryotic chromosomes equally well.
Version 1.3.4 is the latest version of BugView, and was released in October 2006. This release was primarily to allow parsing of recent versions of NCBI .ptt files, but also adds the capability of performing dot-matrix comparisons of the products of paired genes. (This latter was introduced primarily for teaching purposes for use in a class where genes that have split/fused are compared. )
An applet derived from BugView was released in May 2005 and received a bug-fix update in June 2007. The applet only includes a subset of the functionality of the application.
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