title: Chado controller: advanced annotation management with a community annotation system.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  We developed a controller that is compliant with the Chado database schema, GBrowse and genome annotation-editing tools such as Artemis and Apollo. It enables the management of public and private data, monitors manual annotation (with controlled vocabularies, structural and functional annotation controls) and stores versions of annotation for all modified features. The Chado controller uses PostgreSQL and Perl.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The Chado Controller package is available for download at http://www.gnpannot.org/content/chado-controller and runs on any Unix-like operating system, and documentation is available at http://www.gnpannot.org/content/chado-controller-doc The system can be tested using the GNPAnnot Sandbox at http://www.gnpannot.org/content/gnpannot-sandbox-form
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  valentin.guignon@cirad.fr; stephanie.sidibe-bocs@cirad.fr
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: CIRAD, UMR AGAP, F-34398 Montpellier, France. valentin.guignon@cirad.fr
authors.forename: Valentin
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Guignon
authors.forename: Gaëtan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Droc
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alaux
authors.forename: Franc-Christophe
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Baurens
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Garsmeur
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Poiron
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Carver
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rouard
authors.forename: Stéphanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bocs
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled