[Gmod-ajax] Synteny

[Ian H. <ih...@be...>]

One of the future applications of the AJAX genome browser that I've been 
excited about for some time is the possibility of opening two parallel 
views of two related genomes, with one of the views being the "master" 
genome, and the other view displaying a region of the second genome that 
was syntenic to the "master" segment currently being displayed. As you 
slide the master around, the secondary view would follow.

Up until now, the only tool I knew of that did this was the Artemis 
Comparison Tool from Sanger. Well, here I am in Brisbane talking with 
Aaron Darling, who worked on MAUVE and the associated MAUVE Java viewer.

http://gel.ahabs.wisc.edu/mauve/alignments.php

I'll let Aaron (CC'd) describe what kind of data it's designed to 
display and how you navigate it. I mainly just wanted to point this out 
as another tool in the genome browser ecosystem... I also think it's 
quite similar to the sort of synteny viewer I (eventually) thought it 
would be cool to build out of parts of our browser.


BTW here's the ACT webpage:

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/