title: A brief introduction to web-based genome browsers.
abstract: Genome browser provides a graphical interface for users to browse, search, retrieve and analyze genomic sequence and annotation data. Web-based genome browsers can be classified into general genome browsers with multiple species and species-specific genome browsers. In this review, we attempt to give an overview for the main functions and features of web-based genome browsers, covering data visualization, retrieval, analysis and customization. To give a brief introduction to the multiple-species genome browser, we describe the user interface and main functions of the Ensembl and UCSC genome browsers using the human alpha-globin gene cluster as an example. We further use the MSU and the Rice-Map genome browsers to show some special features of species-specific genome browser, taking a rice transcription factor gene OsSPL14 as an example.
authors: College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China.
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Lei
authors: L
authors: Kong
authors: Ge
authors: G
authors: Gao
authors: Jingchu
authors: J
authors: Luo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003626:Data Display; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D014584:User-Computer Interface