Novel Web-based Tools for Collaborative Community-Driven Genome Feature Annotatio

该项目的总体目标是开发一个灵活的， 可扩展的基础设施，将允许整个社区的 给定的生物体很容易有助于基因组注释 过程我们正在通过整合和显著地 增强现有GMOD工具的功能：Apollo，用于 基因组特征注释的创建与特定的 分布式注释系统（Distributed Annotation System） (DAS)协议和相关软件，支持交换 研究人员之间通过互联网进行注释; 基因组浏览器（GBrowse），用于在 交互式网页。我们正在结合这些应用程序， 在此基础上创建一个新的基于网络的基础设施， 将提供强大的，易于使用的工具，协作，社区- 由更广泛的社区驱动的基因组特征注释， 用户.

This project's overarching aim is to develop a flexible and extensible infrastructure that will allow the entire community of a given organism to easily contribute to the genome annotation process. We are doing this by integrating and significantly enhancing the functionality existing GMOD tools: Apollo, used for the creation of genomic feature annotations tied to specific locations on the DNA sequence; the Distributed Annotation System (DAS) protocol and associated software, which supports the exchange of annotations over the Internet between researchers; and Generic Genome Browser (GBrowse), used for displaying genome annotations on interactive Web pages. We are combining these applications and building on them to create a novel web-based infrastructure that will offer robust, easy-to-use tools for collaborative, community- driven genome feature annotation by a much broader community of users.