GenomeTools

The versatile open source genome analysis software

[Genome Annotation]

The GenomeTools genome analysis system is a free collection of bioinformatics tools (in the realm of genome informatics) combined into a single binary named gt. It is based on a C library named “libgenometools” which consists of several modules.

If you are interested in gene prediction, have a look at GenomeThreader.

Platforms

GenomeTools has been designed to run on every POSIX compliant UNIX system — for example Linux or macOS. A reduced Windows version is also available. Please report problems to our issue tracker.

GenomeTools publication

G. Gremme, S. Steinbiss and S. Kurtz.
GenomeTools: a comprehensive software library for efficient processing of structured genome annotations.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 2013, 10(3):645–656

Published software in GenomeTools

The GenomeTools distribution includes several published software tools:

The following software tools are based on the GenomeTools library:

Contact

The GenomeTools are being developed by:
Gordon Gremme, Sascha Steinbiss, Stefan Kurtz and others
Genome Informatics Research Group
Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg