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Microbial Genome Annotation Tools

GLIMMER is a system for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria, archaea, and viruses. GLIMMER (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov ModelER) uses interpolated Markov models to identify coding regions.

Current version of the system is GLIMMER 3.02
  • Delcher AL, Harmon D, Kasif S, White O, Salzberg SL. Improved microbial gene identification with GLIMMER, Nucleic Acids Research 27:23 (1999), 4636-4641.
  • Salzberg S, Delcher A, Kasif S, White O. Microbial gene identification using interpolated Markov models, Nucleic Acids Research 26:2 (1998), 544-548.


  • Download GLIMMER from the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

    Upload your sequence from file:

    Or copy/paste your sequence FASTA here:



    Additional parameters:
    Genetic code: Topology:
    11 (Bacteria, Archaea)
     4 (Mycoplasma/Spiroplasma)
    circular
    linear



    07 January 2009, 13:30