AGCoL SyMAP - Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program UA
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SyMAP (Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program) is a software package for detecting, displaying, and querying syntenic relationships between sequenced genomes.
  • It is designed for divergent eukaryotic genomes (not bacteria).
  • It can align a draft genome to a fully sequenced genome (see Peach), but not draft-to-draft.
  • Synteny is computed for pairs of genomes. The query and display is designed for the comparison of a few genomes at a time (i.e. 2-4).

Latest SyMAP release: v5.6.9 (19-June-2025), see Release Notes.

Download
  symap_5.tar.gz
  - executable and demo files
 
Documentation
  Index of Docs
  System Guide - Build synteny
  User Guide - View synteny
  SyMAP Tour
 
Also see
  TCW: Comparative transcriptomes
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This project was partially supported by the National Research Initiative of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, grant #0214643.
All upgrades since release 7-Nov-2016 have been developed by CAS without funding.
SyMAP was originally written for diverse plant genomes with short introns, but has been modified to work for the long introns of mammalian genomes, and less diverse genomes.

Publications

C. Soderlund, M. Bomhoff, and W. Nelson (2011) SyMAP v3.4: a turnkey synteny system with application to plant genomes Nucleic Acids Research 39(10):e68 Link

C. Soderlund, W. Nelson, A. Shoemaker and A. Paterson (2006) SyMAP: A system for discovering and viewing syntenic regions of FPC maps. Genome Research 16:1159-1168. Link

Email Comments To: symap@agcol.arizona.edu