INFOGENOMICS TOOLS: A COMPUTATIONAL SUITE FOR INFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF GENOMES

Infogenomics is a project aimed at developing informational analyses of genomes adding a new perspective to the more common biological and biochemical investigation on genomes. Here, we present InfoGenomics Tools, shortly IGTools, a computational framework, which consists of a collection of interactive tools, designed to support typical analyses re- quired in the context of Infogenomics. Modularity, interactiveness, data visualization, and low-cost computational requirements are the main goal of IGTools, where suffix arrays are a key point in the data structures representing genomes, and their algorithmic power allows us to speed-up genomic computations that would be prohibitive by using naive methods.