Currently used plotting tools include regional association plotter SNAP (Johnson et al., 2008) and LD-based viewers such as LD-Plus (Bush et al., 2010), CandiSNPer (Schmitt et al., 2010) and VALID (Jorgenson et al., 2009). LocusZoom provides additional features not currently available in any other single tool, such as: (i) the display of 1000 Genomes or novel SNPs from sequencing studies, (ii) functional annotation of SNPs, (iii) exon/intron distinction and automated gene spacing, (iv) ability to plot regions larger than 500 kb, (v) no pre-selection of input files and (vi) web-based batch mode and availability of source code and databases for download and local installation of LocusZoom.
