About:

This tool was developed by Peter Husemann, Bielefeld University
phuseman at cebitec dot uni-bielefeld.de
The source code is available under GPL.

If r2cat was useful for you, please cite it in your work:

Husemann, P. & Stoye, J.

r2cat: synteny plots and comparative assembly

Bioinformatics, 2010, Vol. 26(4), pp. 570-571

Open Access: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/570

Acknowledgements:

Thanks to

the FreeHEP project for the image (vector & bitmap) export code (licensed under LGPL).
the Xerces project for the class XMLCharacterProperties necessary for svg output (licensed under the Apache Software License).
Yvonne Herrmann for implementing the primer design based on the perl script developed by Jochen Blom and Christian Rückert