MoDMaps3D: An interactive webtool for the quantification and 3D visualization of interrelationships in a dataset of DNA sequences

Abstract

Summary MoDMaps3D (Molecular Distance Maps 3D) is an alignment-free, fast, computationally lightweight webtool for computing and visualizing the interrelationships within any dataset of DNA sequences, based on pairwise comparisons between their oligomer compositions. MoDMaps3D is a general-purpose interactive webtool that is free of any requirements on sequence composition, position of the sequences in their respective genomes, presence or absence of similarity or homology, sequence length, or even sequence origin (biological or computer-generated).