IslandViewer 4 | An integrated interface for computational identification and visualization of genomic islands

For published genomes please see pre-computed results.

Uploaded genomes and GI predictions will not be visible to other users of IslandViewer and will be available for at least 1 month.


If you use IslandViewer for your research, please cite the most recent publication. Thank You!
Bertelli, C. et al. 2017.
"IslandViewer 4: Expanded prediction of genomic islands for larger-scale datasets"
Nucleic Acids Research. 2017 May 2.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx343

If you would like to do more comparative analysis of genomes/genomic islands try our new tool
IslandCompare
 
Genome Upload

2024-12-13 - Yesterday there was an unscheduled downtime but this has now been rectified. We apologize for any inconvenience and if you have any further problems please don't hesitate to contact us at islandpick-mail@sfu.ca

Users can log into the user management interface (see LOGIN menu) using Github or Google credentials facilitating access to results.

To analyze larger batches of genomes, an HTTP API is available to submit genomes and retrieve results programmatically using curl, python or perl. More information is available here.

Genomic island predictions can be calculated for your genome using IslandPick, IslandPath-DIMOB, and SIGI-HMM. More Information. See our FAQs.

We only accept user genomes that are formatted in EMBL or GENBANK format. Examples of genome files you should submit: GENBANK, EMBL. If your data was generated by Prokka, please ensure you use Prokka's --complaint flag to generate standard compliant output. IslandViewer will not be able to process it otherwise.

   

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Note for incomplete genomes

Incomplete genomes are now accepted as input due to popular demand. However, whole genome analysis is still preferred to reduce false predictions and missing GIs. Please use at your own risk. We suggest to minimize the number of contigs before performing GI analysis and carefully evaluate all results from such custom jobs. Contigs will be ordered against a user-selected reference genome using the Mauve contig orderer (Rissman et al., 2009). Please note that annotation of the contigs is still required.

 

Hints for a successful analysis

Check and see if your genome file contains protein sequences for all CDSs AND the complete nucleotide sequence. A valid genome file should have full protein sequence data (under "\translation" tag within "CDS" primary tag) and nucleotide sequence data under ORIGIN or blank header in GENBANK or EMBL format, respectively. For example:

     CDS   complement(4043..4849)
                ............................
                /translation="MTATFTAIPAEALRLTDLIDAVAERQRKDFGH....
                ............................
ORIGIN
       1 aaacaaacca aatatggatt ttattgtagc .......................

Please refer to the official GenBank documentation for more details.

Please also remove any lengthy comments from your files at this times These can create problems with downstream generation of the sequence files with genomic islands available for donwload.

If you are still having problems, see our FAQs.