Hi everybody,

I have a question about BRIG (BLAST Ring Image Generator); the software that let's you compare genomes. I don't fully understand all the output it creates. The image and the CGview XML I understand but the rest I don't get. I tried the official website and contacting the maker directly but I can't find any aswers. (English isn't my first language so I apologize for any mistakes)

The "versus files":

gi|157159467|ref|NC_009800.1|   Genome  98.64   53872   714 10  1677191 1731048 2215022 2268889 0.0 1.003e+005
gi|157159467|ref|NC_009800.1|   Genome  98.31   53183   880 9   2278959 2332140 2872441 2925605 0.0 9.780e+004

Every ring has its own file about it's comparison to the reference genome. I don't get all the values in them though. To me, some of the values are the start- and stop positions where the genomes match. I also think I see a E-value from BLAST. But since there are no headers in these files I'm uncertain about it.

RingXmergeflip files:

gi|215485161|ref|NC_011601.1|   Genome  86.51   704 95  0   1283295 1283998 2203423 2202720 0.0  642
gi|215485161|ref|NC_011601.1|   Genome  85.71   756 108 0   1283243 1283998 1643312 1644067 0.0  642

I think these files also contain information about the start- and stopsites. But these files also lack headers so I'm not sure about the content.

Can you guys help me out?