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 A-liner v1.1.0 has been archived on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19702001.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.

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Bioinformatics
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2026-06-24
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https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag408
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Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
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A-liner: linear alignment visualizer for genome comparisons

Yoshitoshi Ogura, Miki Okuno, Takeshi Yamamoto, Takehiko Itoh
Bioinformatics
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
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A-liner: linear alignment visualizer for genome comparisons

Yoshitoshi Ogura, Miki Okuno, Takeshi Yamamoto, Takehiko Itoh
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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 A-liner v1.1.0 has been archived on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19702001.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.

Bioinformatics
Kurume University (JP), Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP), Life Science Institute (JP)
Openalex Percentile: Top 11%
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
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