title: VISTA Region Viewer (RViewer)--a computational system for prioritizing genomic intervals for biomedical studies.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Current genome browsers are designed for linear browsing of individual genomic regions, but the high-throughput nature of experiments aiming to elucidate the genetic component of human disease makes it very important to develop user-friendly tools for comparing several genomic regions in parallel and prioritizing them based on their functional content. We introduce VISTA Region Viewer (RViewer), an interactive online tool that allows for efficient screening and prioritization of regions of the human genome for follow-up studies. The tool takes as input genetic variation data from different biomedical studies, determines a number of various functional parameters for both coding and non-coding sequences in each region and allows for sorting and searching the results of the analysis in multiple ways.
  
  
  METHODS
  The tool is implemented as a web application and is freely accessible on the Web at http://rviewer.lbl.gov
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  rviewer@lbl.gov; ildubchak@lbl.gov.
authors.affiliation: Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS 84-171, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lukashin
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Novichkov
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boffelli
authors.forename: Alex R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Paciorkowski
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Minovitsky
authors.forename: Song
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Inna
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dubchak
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D018628:Gene Dosage; D016678:Genome; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D008957:Models, Genetic; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012984:Software