GFF3sort: a novel tool to sort GFF3 files for tabix indexing

Abstract Background The traditional method of visualizing gene annotation data in JBrowse is converting GFF3 files to JSON format, which is time-consuming. The latest version of JBrowse supports rendering sorted GFF3 files indexed by tabix, a novel strategy that is more convenient than the original...

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Main Authors: Tao Zhu, Chengzhen Liang, Zhigang Meng, Sandui Guo, Rui Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1930-3