The Artemis Software

The Artemis Software is a set of software tools for genome browsing and annotation.

Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage
• License
• Documentation

Introduction

The Artemis Software includes:

• Artemis
• ACT
• BamView
• DNAPlotter

Artemis is a free genome browser and annotation tool that allows visualisation of sequence features, next generation data and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence, and also its six-frame translation. Artemis is written in Java, and is available for UNIX, Macintosh and Windows systems. It can read EMBL and GENBANK database entries or sequence in FASTA, indexed FASTA or raw format. Other sequence features can be in EMBL, GENBANK or GFF format.

ACT is a free tool for displaying pairwise comparisons between two or more DNA sequences. It can be used to identify and analyse regions of similarity and difference between genomes and to explore conservation of synteny, in the context of the entire sequences and their annotation.

For further information, please see the Artemis GitHub page

Installation

For instructions on how to install Artemis, please see the Artemis manual.

Usage

For instructions please see the Artemis manual

License

Artemis is free software, licensed under GPLv3.

For more information on how to download Artemis, please see the Artemis GitHub page

Documentation

The Artemis user manual is at: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis

The ACT user manual is at: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis-comparison-tool-act

The DNA plotter user manual is at: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/dnaplotter

The BAM View user manual is at: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/bamview