Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes
Stefan Kurtz(Universität Hamburg), Adam M. Phillippy, Arthur L. Delcher, Michael Smoot(University of Virginia), Martin Shumway, Corina Antonescu, Steven L. Salzberg
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Abstract
The newest version of MUMmer easily handles comparisons of large eukaryotic genomes at varying evolutionary distances, as demonstrated by applications to multiple genomes. Two new graphical viewing tools provide alternative ways to analyze genome alignments. The new system is the first version of MUMmer to be released as open-source software. This allows other developers to contribute to the code base and freely redistribute the code. The MUMmer sources are available at http://www.tigr.org/software/mummer.