title: STINGRAY: system for integrated genomic resources and analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The STINGRAY system has been conceived to ease the tasks of integrating, analyzing, annotating and presenting genomic and expression data from Sanger and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  STINGRAY includes: (a) a complete and integrated workflow (more than 20 bioinformatics tools) ranging from functional annotation to phylogeny; (b) a MySQL database schema, suitable for data integration and user access control; and (c) a user-friendly graphical web-based interface that makes the system intuitive, facilitating the tasks of data analysis and annotation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  STINGRAY showed to be an easy to use and complete system for analyzing sequencing data. While both Sanger and NGS platforms are supported, the system could be faster using Sanger data, since the large NGS datasets could potentially slow down the MySQL database usage. STINGRAY is available at http://stingray.biowebdb.org and the open source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/stingray-biowebdb/.
authors.forename: Glauber
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jardim
authors.forename: Diogo A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Tschoeke
authors.forename: Daniel R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Loureiro
authors.forename: Kary A C S
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Ocaña
authors.forename: Antonio C B
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: Vanessa E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Emmel
authors.forename: Christian M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Probst
authors.forename: André N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Pitaluga
authors.forename: Edmundo C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Grisard
authors.forename: Maria C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Cavalcanti
authors.forename: Maria L M
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mattoso
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Biologia Computacional e Sistemas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Avenida Brasil 4365, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. davila@fiocruz.br.
authors.forename: Alberto M R
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dávila
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020407:Internet; D010802:Phylogeny; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D057188:Workflow