Integrated Genomic Island Prediction Tool (IGIPT)

Abstract

We have developed a Web based integrated platform for the identification of genomic islands in which various measures that capture bias in nucleotide compositions have been implemented, viz., GC content (both at the whole genome and at three codon positions in genes), genomic signature, k-mer distribution (k=2-6), codon usage bias and amino acid usage bias. The analysis carried out in sliding windows (default size 10 Kb) is compared with the genomic average for each measure. The output is displayed in a tabular format for each window which may be filtered if the values of the measures differ by 1.5 s (standard deviations) from the genomic average.