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Introduction

The Apollo genome annotation editor, which is a Java application, allows users to view, create, and edit genomic annotations in a graphical environment. WebApollo is a new project that aims to provide similar functionality in a client-server web-based environment.

Our overall goal is to develop a lightweight Web 2.0 infrastructure that will offer easy-to-use tools for collaborative genome annotation. This includes the design and implementation of:

1. a web browser-based version of Apollo built on top of JBrowse
2. full support for two-way client-server exchange of genome annotations (DAS2)
3. an annotation tracking system designed to support collaborative genome research projects

The WebApollo project is a collaboration between Suzanna Lewis's group at LBNL (the Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects group, or BBOP) and Chris Elsik's group at Georgetown.

(Funding?)

Project members

• Suzanna Lewis (PI, LBNL)
• Ian Holmes (PI, UC Berkeley)
• Chris Elsik (PI, Georgetown)
• Chris Childers (Georgetown)
• Nomi Harris (LBNL)
• Gregg Helt (LBNL)
• Ed Lee (LBNL)
• Justin Reese (Georgetown)
• Mitch Skinner (UC Berkeley)
• Jay Sundaram (Georgetown)

Links

• Client source on github
• Apollo Web service API

Meetings

Project meetings normally take place on Thursdays at 1:45pm California time. Once a month we meet at 9am California time.

• Notes from WebApollo Hackathon, Healdsburg, CA, Sept 27 - Oct 1, 2010
• Minutes for 12/9/2010
• Minutes for 12/9/2010