Genomicus 2018: karyotype evolutionary trees and on-the-fly synteny computing

TLDR

The Genomicus browser offers comparative genomic analyses across four phyla, enabling users to examine extant and ancestral gene content and order within an evolutionary framework. New analyses and visualization tools have been added, including Multi‑KaryotypeView for comparing karyotype structures across genomes and PhylDiagView for computing and visualizing synteny blocks between any two genomes.

Abstract

Since 2010, the Genomicus web server is available online at http://genomicus.biologie.ens.fr/genomicus. This graphical browser provides access to comparative genomic analyses in four different phyla (Vertebrate, Plants, Fungi, and non vertebrate Metazoans). Users can analyse genomic information from extant species, as well as ancestral gene content and gene order for vertebrates and flowering plants, in an integrated evolutionary context. New analyses and visualization tools have recently been implemented in Genomicus Vertebrate. Karyotype structures from several genomes can now be compared along an evolutionary pathway (Multi-KaryotypeView), and synteny blocks can be computed and visualized between any two genomes (PhylDiagView).