BRIG is a cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Unix) application that can display circular comparisons between a large number of genomes, with a focus on handling genome assembly data.
Major Features:
Available @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/brig/
There's no real 'Installation' process for BRIG itself but users will require NCBI BLAST+ or BLAST legacy, and Java 1.6 or greater to be installed.
To run BRIG users need to:
Users who wish to run BRIG from the command-line need to:
Please report any issues to the issues page
Copyright Nabil-Fareed Alikhan 2010-2019. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Please cite the BRIG paper if BRIG is used to generate figures for publications:
NF Alikhan, NK Petty, NL Ben Zakour, SA Beatson (2011) BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG): simple prokaryote genome comparisons, BMC Genomics, 12:402. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-402