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Welcome to the Biotools for Comparative Microbial Genomics

A free Unix platform for comparing genome sequences. This platform is the product af a course and workshop that has been taught for more than 10 years. The platform and aim of the course has been changing significantly but now, with this new platform, it is the hope that the system will become more stable and usefull for the people who are initially taught this way of working.

Biotools for comparative genomics work platform

The purpose of this wiki, is to create an interactive community around the Biotools platform. The set of tools presented on the Biotools setup are only a small fraction of what can be done in comparative genomics and this wiki is intended to give each user the option of expanding it in the way they need.

Download and install

The disc image file can be downloaded from this webpage: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/dave/CMGtools/

The installation guide is build on the VirtualBox software, which allows the user to run a separate operating system parallel to the existing operating system. VirtualBox is free and comes for both Mac OSX and Windows. [1]

CLS Oslo seminar, June 2012

Title: CMG-Biotools, a platform for Comparative Microbial Genomics Abstract: This seminar will present a free platform for doing comparative microbial genomics (CMG) on genome sequence data. We have developed a stand alone operating system (CMG-biotools) designed for microbiologists with limited knowledge in computational analysis. The system will be introduced, and the different functionalities will be presented using a set of example organisms from the class Negativicutes. The functionalities include download of genomes, basic sequence parameters, basic phylogenetic analysis, proteome comparisons using BLAST and DNA structure analysis. The system is free and comes with a basic introduction to Unix, Wiki documentation page and course-like tutorials. Oslo

Negativicutes example

The system was tested on a example dataset of Negativicutes genomes, publicly available. Negativicutes example

Literature references

References for different programs or algorithms as previously published.

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