Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on April 3, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(10):1305-1306; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn119
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GeneTrack—a genomic data processing and visualization framework
1Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, 2Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Center for Gene Regulation and 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA
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Motivation: High-throughput ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq methodologies generate sufficiently large data sets that analysis poses significant informatics challenges, particularly for research groups with modest computational support. To address this challenge, we devised a software platform for storing, analyzing and visualizing high resolution genome-wide binding data. GeneTrack automates several steps of a typical data processing pipeline, including smoothing and peak detection, and facilitates dissemination of the results via the web. Our software is freely available via the Google Project Hosting environment at http://genetrack.googlecode.com
Contact: iual{at}psu.edu
Associate Editor: Alfonso Valencia
Received on February 13, 2008; revised on March 27, 2008; accepted on March 31, 2008