Table 1.

Biographical information and website addresses for a broad range of visualization tools for genome centric data

Name and ref.	URL	Env.a
AnnoJ (22)	www.annoj.org/	Web
Apollo (23)	apollo.berkeleybop.org/current/index.html	SA
Argo (24)	www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/argo/	SA
Artemis (25)	www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/	SA
CoGe (26)	synteny.cnr.berkeley.edu/CoGe/	Web
Consed (27)	bozeman.mbt.washington.edu/consed/ consed.html	SA
EagleView (28)	bioinformatics.bc.edu/marthlab/EagleView	SA
Ensembl (29)	www.ensembl.org/index.html	Web
Gap5 (30)	staden.sourceforge.net/	SA
GEB (31)	web.bioinformatics.ic.ac.uk/geb/	SA
GenomeView	genomeview.org	SA
Hawkeye (32)	amos.sourceforge.net/hawkeye/	SA
IGB (33)	igb.bioviz.org/download.shtml	SA
IGV (34)	www.broadinstitute.org/igv/	SA
JalView (35)	www.jalview.org/	SA
LookSeq (36)	www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/lookseq/	SA
MapView (37)	evolution.sysu.edu.cn/mapview/	SA
MaqView (38)	maq.sourceforge.net/maqview.shtml	SA
NGSView	ngsview.sourceforge.net/	SA
Savant (39)	genomesavant.com/	SA
Tablet (40)	bioinf.scri.ac.uk/tablet/	SA
tview (41)	samtools.sourceforge.net/	SA
UCSC (42)	genome.ucsc.edu/	Web
Vista (43)	pipeline.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/gateway2	SA

^aEnvironment, can be either web based (web) or stand-alone (SA). Web-based applications require a server to function, stand-alone programs can work without.