Artemis Comparison Tool (ACT)

ACT is a Java application for displaying pairwise comparisons between two or more DNA sequences.

ACT can be used to identify and analyse regions of similarity and difference between genomes and to explore conservation of synteny, in the context of the entire sequences and their annotation. It can read complete EMBL, GENBANK and GFF entries or sequences in FASTA or raw format.

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This page was archived in 2022

Downloads

Please see our GitHub page for download and installation instructions.

Further information

Learn and support

For more information and advice on using this software please see our GitHub page.

In addition, an email discussion list called artemis-users is available and posts to the list since September 2001 are archived at mail-archive.com

License and Citation

ACT is available under GPL3.

If you make use of this software in your research, please cite as:

ACT: the Artemis Comparison Tool.

Carver TJ, Rutherford KM, Berriman M, Rajandream MA, Barrell BG and Parkhill

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2005;21;16;3422-3
PUBMED: 15976072; DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti553