RnallViewer: An RNA Analysis Visualization Tool
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Introduction
RnallViewer is an RNA analysis and visualization tool that combines information and processing from various command-line tools in an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI).
Rnall is used for generating RNA structure predictions, which can be automatically sent to Naview, plt22ps, and
Ghostscript for visualization. Annotation information can be included, parsed with the help of
BioJava. RnallViewer's panelling system allows much of this information to be displayed simultaneously, and comprehensive searching methods allow quick access to specific regions based on annotation and position criteria in the format of NCBI ptt format (see
an example).
RnallViewer was previously named BioAnalyzer. The name was changed in early July 2007.
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License
RnallViewer was jointly developed by Peter P. Dempsey, Xiu-Feng
(Henry) Wan, and Dong Xu. This copyright of RnallViewer belongs to
Digital Biology Laboratory, University of Missouri-Columbia.
It is freely available under the
GNU license for academic users.
The latest version is
here.
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System Requirements
RnallViewer works on Java-compatible machines and has been tested on Windows and OS X.
RnallViewer requires Java 1.5 (
download site) and Java3D (
download site) or higher. RnallViewer's installer includes some other third-party programs and technologies which can be installed independently if desired, such as
Ghostscript,
BioJava, Naview and plt22ps. If you are not working under Windows you must install Ghostscript yourself as there is currently not automated installer for other OSes.
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Releases
The latest version, released on 7/5/2007, is 1.0.1 (
download) (
Note: please save the file as RnallViewer_Installer.jar instead of RnallViewer_Installer.zip)
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Acknowledgements
This work has been supported by the US Department of Energy's Genomes to Life program (
http://www.doegenomestolife.org) under project, "Carbon Sequestration in Synechococcus Sp.: From Molecular Machines to Hierarchical Modeling" (
http://www.genomes-to-life.org).
It can be cited as:
1. Wan, X.-F., G. Lin, and D. Xu. 2006. Rnall: An efficient algorithm for predicting RNA local secondary structural landscape in genomes. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
4: 1015-1031.
2. Wan, X.-F., P. P. Dempsey, and D. Xu. RnallViewer: A tool for RNA local secondary structure prediction, localization, and visualization. Submitted.
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