Bio-Draw-FeatureStack version 0.03 ================================== FeatureStack creates GD images of vertically stacked gene models to facilitate visual comparison of gene structures. Compared genes can be clusters of orthologous genes, gene family members, or any other genes of interest. FeatureStack takes an array of BioPerl feature objects as input, projects them onto a common coordinate space, flips features from the negative strand (optional), left-aligns them by start coordinates (optional), sets a fixed intron size (optional), removes unwanted transcripts (optional), and then draws the so transformed features with a user-specified glyph. Internally, this transformation is achieved by cloning all input features into Bio::Graphics::Feature objects before the features get rendered by the specified glyph. Output images can be generated in SVG (scalable vectorized image) or PNG (rastered image) format. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Bio::Graphics Bio::Graphics::Glyph::decorated_gene GD::SVG (version 0.32) Test::Exception COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Put the correct copyright and licence information here. Copyright (C) 2012 by Christian Frech This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.