InfoGenomics Tools: A Computational Suite for Informational Analysis of Genomes
Vincenzo Bonnici,Vincenzo Manca*
Affiliation
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Strada le Grazie, Verona, Italy.
Corresponding Author
Vincenzo Manca . Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy. E-mail: vincenzo.manca@univr.it
Citation
Manca, V., et al. Infogenomics Tools: A Computational Suite for Informational Analyses of Genomes. (2015) Bioinfo Proteom Img Anal 1(1): 7- 14.
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©2015 Manca, V. This is an Open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Infogenomics is a project aimed at developing informational analyses of genomes adding a new perspective to the more common biological and biochemical investigation on genomes. Here, we present InfoGenomics Tools, shortly IGTools, a computational framework, which consists of a collection of interactive tools, designed to support typical analyses re- quired in the context of Infogenomics. Modularity, interactiveness, data visualization, and low-cost computational requirements are the main goal of IGTools, where suffix arrays are a key point in the data structures representing genomes, and their algorithmic power allows us to speed-up genomic computations that would be prohibitive by using naive methods.