Ziplign documentation

Ziplign is a free application to visualise the comparison of two bacterial genomes. It is intended to be easy to use: you just need to drag and drop two sequence files to compare. Ziplign will run BLAST for you and show you the results. There is no need to use a terminal or type any commands.

The source code is in the Ziplign GitHub repository, under the permissive MIT license. Please report any issues on GitHub.

Contents:

• Installing Ziplign
  • Supported Operating Systems
  • Download Ziplign
  • First time running Ziplign
  • Use the test data
  • Updating Ziplign
• Loading new genomes
  • Sequence files
  • BLAST options
  • Start processing
• Viewing Genomes
  • Default view
  • Navigation
  • Base-pair view
  • Filtering matches
  • Matches in a region
  • Selecting and copying a region
  • Saving and loading positions
• Searching
  • Search for sequence
  • Search for annotation
• Contig editing
  • Move or reverse complement a contig
• Saving and Loading
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Settings
• Ziplign data folder
  • Contents of the data folder
• Uninstalling Ziplign
• A brief history of Ziplign
  • Motivation
  • Under the hood
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Can I compare more than two genomes?
  • Why no Windows 10 support?
  • Why no Windows ARM support?
  • Why do the tooltips have slightly blurry text?
  • Why are the save/load windows slightly blurry?
  • Why not use ACT instead?