Web Apollo: a web-based genomic annotation editing platform

Genome Biology

Suzanna E Lewis⁴  Christine G Elsik²  Ian H Holmes¹  Lincoln Stein³  Robert M Buels¹  Chris P Childers⁵  Monica C Munoz-Torres⁴  Justin T Reese⁵  Gregg A Helt⁴  Eduardo Lee⁴ 

[1] Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 172 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 0A3;Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

关键词: EDITOR;    COLLABORATIVE;    GENOME;   

Others  :  864020
DOI  :  10.1186/gb-2013-14-8-r93

 received in 2013-05-10, accepted in 2013-08-30,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Web Apollo is the first instantaneous, collaborative genomic annotation editor available on the web. One of the natural consequences following from current advances in sequencing technology is that there are more and more researchers sequencing new genomes. These researchers require tools to describe the functional features of their newly sequenced genomes. With Web Apollo researchers can use any of the common browsers (for example, Chrome or Firefox) to jointly analyze and precisely describe the features of a genome in real time, whether they are in the same room or working from opposite sides of the world.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Lee et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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