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. 2016 May 6;44(Web Server issue):W35–W40. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw310

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Figure 2. — Flowchart and outputs of SynSearcher. (A) Given a DNA or protein sequence in the FASTA format, SynSearcher finds matching regions in a reference species using a BLAST search and returns pairwise synteny blocks containing the matched regions of the reference species. (B) The outputs of SynSearcher (white box, BLAST search results and the coordinates of pairwise synteny blocks; below, the Circos plot) for seven species (human, chimpanzee, gorilla, mouse, cat, dog and chicken) given a user-provided sequence.