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+D-Genies
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+Dot plots are widely used to quickly compare sequence sets. They provide a synthetic similarity overview, highlighting repetitions, breaks and inversions. Different tools have been developed to easily generated genomic alignment dot plots, but they are often limited in the input sequence size. D-GENIES is a standalone and WEB application performing large genome alignments using [minimap2](https://github.com/lh3/minimap2) software package and generating interactive dot plots. It enables users to sort query sequences along the reference , zoom in the plot and download several image, alignment or sequence files. D-GENIES is an easy to install open source software package (GPL) developed in Python and JavaScript.
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+How to use?
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+You can use the demo instance [here](http://dgenies.toulouse.inra.fr).
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+Or you can install your own instance. The install documentation is available [here](http://dgenies.toulouse.inra.fr/install).
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+Credits
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+D-Genies is developed by the [Bioinfo team](http://bioinfo.genotoul.fr/index.php/about-us/) of the [Genotoul platform](http://www.genotoul.fr/) ([INRA](http://www.inra.fr/)).
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