Acknowledgements

We would appreciate anyone who uses IslandViewer to cite:

Bertelli, C., Laird, M.R., Williams, K.P., SFU Research Computing Group, Lau, B.Y., Hoad, G.L., Winsor, G.L., and Brinkman, F.S.L. (2017). "IslandViewer 4: Expanded prediction of genomic islands for larger-scale datasets", Nucleic Acids Research, 2017 May 2. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx343

Dhillon, B.K., Laird, M.R., Shay, J.A., Winsor, G.L., Lo, R., Nizam, F., Pereira, S.K., Waglechner, N., McArthur A.G., Langille, M.G.I., and Brinkman, F.S.L. (2015). "IslandViewer 3: more flexible, interactive genomic island discovery, visualization and analysis", Nucleic Acids Research, 43 (W1): W104-W108. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv401

Dhillon, B.K., Chiu, T.A., Laird, M.R., Langille, M.G.I., and Brinkman, F.S.L. (2013). “IslandViewer update: improved genomic island discovery and visualization“, Nucleic Acids Research, 41(Web server issue):W129-132. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt394

Langille, M.G.I. and Brinkman, F.S.L. (2009). “IslandViewer: an integrated interface for computational identification and visualization of genomic islands”, Bioinformatics, (2009) 25 (5): 664-665. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp030

In addition, depending on the resources used, we would encourage the acknowledgement of one or more of the following resources:

• Islander (Hudson et al., 2015)
• SIGI-HMM (Waack et al., 2006)
• IslandPath-DIMOB (Hsiao et al., 2003, Hsiao et al., 2005 and Langille et al., 2008)
• IslandPick (Langille et al., 2008)
• Mauve (Darling et al. 2010; Rissman et al., 2009)
• Virulence Factor Database - VFDB - (Chen et al., 2012)
• PATRIC (Wattam et al., 2014)
• Victor's virulence factors (http://www.phidias.us/victors/)
• Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (Jia et al., 2017)
• Pathogen-associated genes - Datasets (Ho Sui et al., 2009)