Interactive dotplot tool for DNA and protein sequence comparison
🔗 Try it online: https://dcuentasf.github.io/dotly/
⬇️ Download desktop version: https://github.com/dcuentasf/dotly/releases
Dotly is a simple and interactive tool to visualize similarities between biological sequences using dotplots.
You can compare two sequences (DNA or protein) from FASTA files and explore patterns such as repeats, inversions, and conserved regions.
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Upload two FASTA files
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Generate dotplots instantly
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Adjustable:
- Window size
- Stringency
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Web-based version (no installation required)
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Desktop version in Python
- Open the online tool
- Upload two FASTA files
- Adjust parameters if needed
- Generate the dotplot
- Download from Releases
- Run the Python script
- Provide input FASTA files
- Adjust parameters
- Sequence similarity
- Repeats
- Inversions
- Conserved regions
Dotly focuses on simplicity and accessibility:
- No complex setup
- Fast visualization
- Works directly in the browser
Dotly is designed as a lightweight alternative for quick dotplot analysis and visualization.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
