Fig. 6

The anchor view. The alignment of 29 Mycobacterium bacteriophage genomes is a challenge to visual approaches. Here we use a large value of m=175 to display a sequence of anchors, or backbone, in a single screen. The user can then zoom quickly to a specific region, and detect, as Fig. 7 shows, interesting subsets of genomes. Boxes group pairs of anchors bounding a gapless alignment