AUTHOR=Garanina Irina A. , Fisunov Gleb Y. , Govorun Vadim M. TITLE=BAC-BROWSER: The Tool for Visualization and Analysis of Prokaryotic Genomes JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02827 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2018.02827 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=

Prokaryotes are actively studied objects in the scope of genomic regulation. Microbiologists need special tools for complex analysis of data to study and identification of regulatory mechanism in bacteria and archaea.

We developed a tool BAC-BROWSER, specifically for visualization and analysis of small prokaryotic genomes. BAC-BROWSER provides tools for different types of analysis to study a wide set of regulatory mechanisms of prokaryotes:

transcriptional regulation by transcription factors (TFs), analysis of TFs, their targets, and binding sites.

other regulatory motifs, promoters, terminators and ribosome binding sites

transcriptional regulation by variation of operon structure, alternative starts or ends of transcription.

non-coding RNAs, antisense RNAs

RNA secondary structure, riboswitches

GC content, GC skew, codon usage

BAC-browser incorporated free programs accelerating the verification of obtained results: primer design and oligocalculator, vector visualization, the tool for synthetic gene construction. The program is designed for Windows operating system and freely available for download in http://smdb.rcpcm.org/tools/index.html.