Bacterial genome mapper: A comparative bacterial genome mapping tool

Abstract

Recently, next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have led to a revolutionary increase in sequencing speed and cost-efficacy. Consequently, a vast number of contigs from many recently sequenced bacterial genomes remain to be accurately mapped and annotated, requiring the development of more convenient bioinformatics programs. In this paper, we present a newly developed web-based bioinformatics program, Bacterial Genome Mapper, which is suitable for mapping and annotating contigs that have been assembled from bacterial genome sequence raw data. By constructing a multiple alignment map between target contig sequences and two reference bacterial genome sequences, this program also provides very useful comparative genomics analysis of draft bacterial genomes. Availability: Bacterial Genome Mapper is freely accessible at