WebApollo
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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:
- a web-browser-based version of Apollo built on top of JBrowse
- full support for two-way client-server exchange of genome annotations (DAS2)
- 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), the JBrowse project in Ian Holmes' group at Berkeley, and Chris Elsik's group at Georgetown.
This work is supported by an NIH grant (Lewis R01 GM080203).
Project members
- Suzanna Lewis (PI, LBNL)
- Ian Holmes (PI, UC Berkeley)
- Chris Elsik (PI, Georgetown)
- Rob Buels (UC Berkeley)
- Chris Childers (Georgetown)
- Nomi Harris (LBNL)
- Gregg Helt (LBNL)
- Ed Lee (LBNL)
- Monica Munoz-Torres (Georgetown)
- Justin Reese (Georgetown)
- (Mitch Skinner (Developed first version of JBrowse--no longer at UC Berkeley))
Links
- Client source on github
- Annotation editing engine server source code on Google Code
- Data model and I/O layer code used by editing engine on Google Code
- Trellis server code on Google Code
- Apollo Web service API
Meetings
Project meetings normally take place on Mondays at 1:00pm California time. On the last Monday of the month we usually meet at 9am California time.