TY - JOUR AU - Barson, Gemma AU - Griffiths, Ed PY - 2016 DA - 2016/01/22 TI - SeqTools: visual tools for manual analysis of sequence alignments JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 39 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Manual annotation is essential to create high-quality reference alignments and annotation. Annotators need to be able to view sequence alignments in detail. The SeqTools package provides three tools for viewing different types of sequence alignment: Blixem is a many-to-one browser of pairwise alignments, displaying multiple match sequences aligned against a single reference sequence; Dotter provides a graphical dot-plot view of a single pairwise alignment; and Belvu is a multiple sequence alignment viewer, editor, and phylogenetic tool. These tools were originally part of the AceDB genome database system but have been completely rewritten to make them generally available as a standalone package of greatly improved function. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-1847-3 DO - 10.1186/s13104-016-1847-3 ID - Barson2016 ER -