Why MoMI-G?ΒΆ

There are many genome browsers or SV visualization tools; why does MoMI-G exist?

To our knowledge,MoMI-G is the only SV visualization tool that satisfies the following conditions:

    1. allows visualization of (possibly distant) multiple intervals;
    1. displays SVs that span multiple intervals;
    1. displays SVs at varying scales, i.e., chromosome, gene, and nucleotide scales;
    • 4a. the chromosome scale view can show the distribution of SVs on one or more chromosomes;
    • 4b. the gene scale view can show annotations such as exon/intron structures and repeats;
    • 4c. the nucleotide scale view can show nucleotide-level alignments, in particular, read alignments that correspond to both alleles of heterozygous SVs are shown simultaneously;
    1. allows users to manually inspect hundreds of SVs.

MoMI-G provides a graph-based view that displays a genome with branches and alignments on them. Users can filter, visualize with genomic annotations, and inspect SVs with read alignments.

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