A-liner: linear alignment visualizer for genome comparisons
SUMMARY: A-liner is a flexible command-line tool for linear visualization of genome-scale sequence alignments, supporting outputs from multiple aligners and integrated visualization of annotations, highlights, quantitative tracks, and coordinate scales. It is applicable to a wide range of organisms, from bacteria to large eukaryotic genomes, and facilitates efficient generation of publication-ready comparative genome visualizations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code and example output files for a-liner are available in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/mokuno3430/a-liner. A-liner v1.1.0 has been archived on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19702001. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Authors
- Yoshitoshi Ogura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4509-2653)
- Miki Okuno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6164-1878)
- Takeshi Yamamoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0525-6481)
- Takehiko Itoh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6113-557X)
Institutions
- Kurume University (JP)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
- Life Science Institute (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bioinformatics
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag408
- Primary Topic
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00