GeneVisualizer displays an organism's genes visually.
The program takes two sets of genes as input. One is a list of an organism's predicted genes, and the other is a list of an organism's known genes. It can be useful to compare how the two lists of genes match up, which is where GeneVisualizer comes in handy.
The organism's genome is laid out linearly from left to right. Genes are shown near the 6 horizontal lines, which represent the 6 open reading frames. The predicted genes are show above the lines, and the known genes are below the lines.
Genes will be one of 5 colors, depending on how well they match:
Green means a true positive, i.e. a predicted gene that lines up exactly with a known gene.
Blue means a semi-true positive, i.e. a predicted gene that almost lines up with a known gene.
Orange means a false positive, i.e. a predicted gene that does not match any known gene.
Black means a known gene that was correctly predicted or semi-predicted.
Red means a false negative, i.e. a known gene that was not predicted.
The program is controlled by the mouse:
Left Drag pans the view to the left and right.
Right Drag zooms in on the selected region.
Right Click zooms out to fit the entire genome on the view.