Abstract
Summary: Visualizing genes’ structure and annotated features helps biologists to investigate their function and evolution intuitively. The Gene Structure Display Server (GSDS) has been widely used by more than 60 000 users since its first publication in 2007. Here, we reported the upgraded GSDS 2.0 with a newly designed interface, supports for more types of annotation features and formats, as well as an integrated visual editor for editing the generated figure. Moreover, a user-specified phylogenetic tree can be added to facilitate further evolutionary analysis. The full source code is also available for downloading.Availability and implementation: Web server and source code are freely available at http://gsds.cbi.pku.edu.cn.Contact: gaog@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn or gsds@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cnSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Highlights
The visualization of gene features such as composition and position of exons and introns for genes offers visual presentation for biologists to integrate annotation, and helps them to produce highquality figures for publication
Availability and implementation: Web server and source code are freely available at http://gsds. cbi.pku.edu.cn
Contact: gaog@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn or gsds@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online
Summary
The visualization of gene features such as composition and position of exons and introns for genes offers visual presentation for biologists to integrate annotation, and helps them to produce highquality figures for publication. Designing to generate high-quality figures suitable for publication, we developed an online Gene Structure Display Server (GSDS) (Guo et al, 2007), which supported three input formats including sequences, accession number of GenBank (Benson et al, 2013) and exon positions. To aid biologists generating suitable figures for publication, GSDS 2.0 offers a powerful interactive interface. A user-specified phylogenetic tree can be added to the figure. GSDS 2.0 shows superiors in both the supports for input/output formats, usability and availability (Supplementary Table S1)
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