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).
- For gene synteny and fast computation, have SyMAP mask the non-genic sequence.
For new gene discovery but slower computation, leave the sequence un-masked.
- It can align a draft genome to a fully sequenced genome and order the draft (see Peach).
- The query and display is designed for the comparison of a few genomes at a time (i.e. 2-4).
Latest SyMAP release: v5.8.1 (11-March-2026), see Release Notes.
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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.
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All upgrades since release 7-Nov-2016 have been developed by Cari Soderlund 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.
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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
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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.
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