Welcome to Genogator, a web-based tool to create sequence diagrams from annotated sequence files.
From here you can:If you have ever had to create a diagram of the genes, promoters, protein binding sites and any other features of interest over a region of DNA, you'll know that it's a pain. You can draw it manually - in which case you'll probably need to redraw it several times as requirements change. Or you can use software to draw it for you, which up until now has meant that the diagram styles have been limited by the imagination of the software creator.
Genogator takes a new approach to creating diagrams for genetic sequences. It uses an annotated sequence file in EMBL format (to tell it what features exist) and a parameter-file (to tell it how to draw them). How features are displayed are set in a hierarchical way. This means Genogator is highly adaptable- you can emphasise the features you want and have control for tricky regions with adjacent or overlapping features. Parameter files creating several 'default' styles are provided, and after you've tweaked one of these to your requirements you can save it (by copy and paste) for later use.
You can also set image-wide properties like resolution, image width, bases per row and so on to any reasonable value, and a wide range of output file-formats are offered. The Images produced can be of a quality suitable for research papers, degree coursework and Masters or PhD theses. It is free to use, and no claim is made on copyright of the images produced.