Ivan Ovcharenko, Gabriela G. Loots, Ross C. Hardison, Webb Miller, and Lisa Stubbs
zPicture: Dynamic Alignment and Visualization Tool for Analyzing Conservation Profiles
Genome Research, 14(3), 472-477, (2004)
http://zpicture.dcode.org/
zPicture is a dynamic alignment and visualization tool that is based on blastz alignment program utilized by PipMaker. zPicture alignments can be automatically submitted to rVista 2.0 to identify conserved transcription factor binding sites.
InstructionsExample: human-rat-fugu GATA3 alignmentDescription

multi-zPicture: multiple sequence alignment tool
SEQUENCE 1
Upload sequence and gene annotation from
UCSC Genome Browser
- or -
Paste sequence
(in FASTA format )
- or -
FASTA file (.fa)
- or -
NCBI accession #
SEQUENCE 2
Upload sequence and gene annotation from
UCSC Genome Browser
- or -
Paste sequence
(in FASTA format )
- or -
FASTA file (.fa)
- or -
NCBI accession #
OPTIONAL :: ANNOTATION 1
Repeats:
Repeats are identified by lower-case letters
Mask repetitive elements
Gene annotation (if any):
    Paste
    File
OPTIONAL :: ANNOTATION 2
Repeats:
Repeats are identified by lower-case letters
Mask repetitive elements
Gene annotation (if any):
    Paste
    File
Select to run "fast" BlastZ on microbial-size genomes
Select to perform "chained" (global) blastz alignment


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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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