bacterial genome alignment

Question

[glady]

hi everyone, Can we perform a genome alignment in MAUVE without having a reference genome ?

[GenoMax]

Since you get to pick the genomes you want to align, yes.

[natasha.sernova]

Also see this post. it may be useful.

Multiple whole genome alignment

[Medhat]

Yes you can chose whatever genomes you need , so no reference will work, But Have a look at this Any Software To Do Multiple Genome Alignment For Bacterial Genomes?

it will give you more info to achieve what you need

Answer 1

[bioinfo17]

yes you can!!! you don't need a reference