PlasMapper: A web server for drawing and auto-annotating plasmid maps

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Wishart, D.S.
  • Stothard, P.
  • Dong, X.
  • Forsythe, I.

• PlasMapper is a comprehensive web server that automatically generates and annotates high-quality circular plasmid maps. Taking only the plasmid/vector DNA sequence as input, PlasMapper uses sequence pattern matching and BLAST alignment to automatically identify and label common promoters, terminators, cloning sites, restriction sites, reporter genes, affinity tags, selectable marker genes, replication origins and open reading frames. PlasMapper then presents the identified features in textual form and as high resolution, multicolored graphical output. The appearance and contents of the output can be customized in numerous ways using several supplied options. Further, PlasMapper images can be rendered in both rasterized (PNG and JPG) and vector graphics (SVG)formats to accommodate a variety of userneeds or preferences. The images and textual output are of sufficient quality that they may be used directly in publications or presentations. The PlasMapper web server is freely accessible at http://wishart.biology. ualberta.ca/PlasMapper.

• Date created

  2004

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Programs
  • Suite

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3DF6K570

• License

  The online version of this article has been published under an open access model. Users are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open access version of this article provided that: the original authorship is properly and fully attributed; the Journal and Oxford University Press are attributed as the original place of publication with the correct citation details given; if an article is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work this must be clearly indicated. Copyright 2004, the authors