title: The Saccharomyces Genome Database: Exploring Genome Features and Their Annotations.
abstract: Genomic-scale assays result in data that provide information over the entire genome. Such base pair resolution data cannot be summarized easily except via a graphical viewer. A genome browser is a tool that displays genomic data and experimental results as horizontal tracks. Genome browsers allow searches for a chromosomal coordinate or a feature, such as a gene name, but they do not allow searches by function or upstream binding site. Entry into a genome browser requires that you identify the gene name or chromosomal coordinates for a region of interest. A track provides a representation for genomic results and is displayed as a row of data shown as line segments to indicate regions of the chromosome with a feature. Another type of track presents a graph or wiggle plot that indicates the processed signal intensity computed for a particular experiment or set of experiments. Wiggle plots are typical for genomic assays such as the various next-generation sequencing methods (e.g., chromatin immunoprecipitation [ChIP]-seq or RNA-seq), where it represents a peak of DNA binding, histone modification, or the mapping of an RNA sequence. Here we explore the browser that has been built into the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD).
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5120.
authors.forename: J Michael
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cherry
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D064878:Web Browser