What it does

Takes two FASTA files (species A and species B), compares them using one of the MUMmer 3 tools (mummer, nucmer, or promer), checking both strands, and then draws a dotplot using mummerplot.

The full MUMmer suite is more flexible and capable than this limited wrapper.

References

MUMmer manual: v3.22 http://mummer.sourceforge.net/manual/

MUMmer tutorials: http://mummer.sourceforge.net/examples/

If you use MUMmer 3, please cite:

S. Kurtz et al. (2004). Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes. Genome Biology (2004), 5:R12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-2-r12

This wrapper is available to install into other Galaxy Instances via the Galaxy Tool Shed at http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/mummer