Pipit: visualizing functional impacts of structural variations

Summary: Pipit is a gene-centric interactive visualisation tool designed to study structural genomic variations. Through focusing on individual genes as the functional unit, researchers are able to study and generate hypotheses on the biological impact of different structural variations, for instance the deletion of dosage-sensitive genes or the formation of fusion genes. Pipit is a cross-platform Java application that visualises structural variation data from Genome Variation Format (GVF) files.Availability: Executables, source code, sample data, documentation and screencast are available at https://bitbucket.org/biovizleuven/pipit. Supplementary materials are available at Bioinformatics online.Contact: ryo.sakai@esat.kuleuven.be