“…Among all existing alignment-free methods for comparing biological sequences [10,28,23,5,25], sequence graphical representation provides a simple way to view, sort, and compare gene structures [11,13,29,24,18,15,14]. The aim of graphical representation is to display DNA or protein sequences graphically so that we can easily find out visually how similar or 0020-0255/$ -see front matter Ó 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.…”