Spinwave
Graphics - (Spinwave, Wales)
provides compression for GIF and JPG
files. Also see
here.
Gif
Tools - (GifTools.com) also provides compression for GIF and JPG files
PDB2MultiGIF
(Central Spectroscopy Department - Molecular Modeling, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Germany)
which takes the 3D
structure
(PDB file) and generates an animated image which can be displayed using any browser. There is
considerable choice
on the image size,
number of frames and direction of rotation.
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For simple web-based plasmid drawing
programs see
NetPlasmid
(JustBio.com) or
Savvy
(Bioinformatics.org, Scalable Vector Graphics Plasmid Map;
M.K. Basu).
For a very sophisticated online plasmid
drawing program use
PlasMapper
(Xiaoli Dong et al.2004. Nucleic Acids Res.
32
(Web Server issue):W660-4). This program will search for restriction sites,
and in addition to permitting the user to diagram genes one can
indicate the positions of promoters, terminators, replication origins with a
large amount of control on picture properties and quality.
DNAPlotter -
is an interactive Java application for generating
circular and linear representations of genomes. Making use of
the Artemis libraries to provide a user-friendly method of loading
in sequence files (EMBL, GenBank, GFF) as well as data from
relational databases, it filters features of interest to display
on separate user-definable tracks. It can be used to produce
publication quality images for papers or web pages.(Reference: Carver, T. et al. 2008. Bioinformatics
25:119-120)
GenomeVx - makes
editable, publication-quality, maps of mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes
and of large plasmids. These maps show the location of genes and chromosomal
features as well as a position scale. The program takes as input either raw
feature positions or GenBank records. In the latter case, features are
automatically extracted and colored, an example of which is given. Output is
in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and can be edited by programs such
as Adobe Illustrator.(Reference: G. Conant & K.
Woolfe. 2008. Bioinformatics 24:861-862)
FancyGene - is a
fast and user-friendly web-based tool for producing images of one
or more genes directly on the corresponding genomic locus. Starting
from a variety of input formats, FancyGene rebuilds the basic
components of a gene (UTRs, intron, exons). Once the initial
representation is obtained, the user can superimpose additional
features—such as protein domains and/or a variety of biological
markers—in specific positions. (Reference: D.
Rambaldi & F.D. Ciccarelli. 2009. Bioinformatics 25:
2281-2282)