Try belvu. You can create boxes and lines of different colors. It's
designed to show sequence features. Look at this site:
http://www.cgr.ki.se/cgr/groups/sonnhammer/Belvu.html
Raf Podowski
Center for Genomics Research
Bioinformatics Unit
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
Jeroen Raes wrote:
> Dear all,
>> Does anybody know of a program to make 'boxed' representations of gene
> structures in stead of spending hours to draw them?
>> eg. I give the program a sequence --tacga---catg--------gcat-- or some
> coordinates (3-7,11-14,23-26) and it returns me something like
>> --[BOX(lenght=5)]---[BOX(length=4)]--------[BOX(length=4)]
>> ..which would be in jpg or gif or postscript, whatever...
>> It would also be nice if certain positions could be given different
> colours (eg ATG, ORF, conserved areas,...)
>> thanks!
> --
>> Jeroen Raes
> Research group of Bioinformatics
> Department of Plant Genetics Tel:32.9.264 87 20 Fax:32.9.264 50 08
> University of Ghent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 GENT, Belgium
> Laboratoire Associe de l'INRA
> Vlaams interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)
>jerae at gengenp.rug.ac.behttp://www.plantgenetics.rug.ac.be
