BLAST Ring Image Generator Reviews

I think this software has potential but it is incredibly difficult to use. Downloading existing genomes in .fna format still does not yield the gene data as seen in the example dataset. Even when using the supplied data set, following the supplied user manual the data output is different to what is said in the user manual. Having used plenty of software in the past such as galaxy and R, I may not be an IT expert but this seems ridiculous. Not sure if bugs or me.. either way renders this software unusable.

so since I'm not allowed to write a ticket, I'm writing a review. I have a HUGE trouble using brig. the creation of multiple rings never work, I always have some missing, when I try to show my genomes one ring at a time, sometimes it works, sometime not, it seems quite random as the same strain will work at time t and not work at time t+1. There is no error message. It seems the software is just printing the rings just when it feels like it... As I see that there doesn't seem to be any support for this tool anymore (last update 2013, last reply to a user's request 2011...) does anybody has any suggestion of another software that might do similar plots ?

Always notice: contains a space. Invalid filename Could someone help me to solve this problem?

I identified a bug, but could not fill out a bug report. If the files have the same name, but are in different folders, only the last file is used to generate the rings. Eg. If folderA/file.fa and folderB/file.fa are used to generate two rings, BRIG results will show two rings corresponding to folderB/file.fa. Otherwise, I think it's a pretty good tool. It would be nice if it was more compatible with support vector graphics programs for post-editting.

Hi I can't seem to create one of the trackers? I want to ask for support in using the program BRIG. I am new to the program but despite getting though to the configuration confirmation and the BLAST run finishing I am unable to find the image file that is supposed to be produced. All I find in the output file is the scratch folder containing .tab and .xml files (no JPEG or PNG files). I would be really grateful to have some help on the subject. Thank you Roseina

A good program but when i use my own data not example it show error please guide me. Please let me know how can i get graph file . Thanks

Thanks for the nice program. I have a problem when mapping coverage Graphs. When CGview parses the XML file first I encountered an out of memory error: "GC overhead limit" which I avoided with -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit but then instead i got the memory error "Java heap space". I want to run coverage mappings for 20 genomes of ~6,5 Mbp so it is quite a lot of data to render, but I have tried allocating more memory (15gb) and still get the error. Do you have a suggestion for solcing the problem? I'm running BRIG on a UNIX server, tunnelling java.

Thanks for software and updates.

Great interface and easy to use.