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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on June 3, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(15):1856-1861; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp350
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UTGB toolkit for personalized genome browsers

Taro L. Saito 1,2, Jun Yoshimura 1,2, Shin Sasaki 1, Budrul Ahsan 1, Atsushi Sasaki 1, Reginaldo Kuroshu 1 and Shinichi Morishita 1,2,*

1 Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-15 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-0882 and 2 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102-8666, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

The advent of high-throughput DNA sequencers has increased the pace of collecting enormous amounts of genomic information, yielding billions of nucleotides on a weekly basis. This advance represents an improvement of two orders of magnitude over traditional Sanger sequencers in terms of the number of nucleotides per unit time, allowing even small groups of researchers to obtain huge volumes of genomic data over fairly short period. Consequently, a pressing need exists for the development of personalized genome browsers for analyzing these immense amounts of locally stored data. The UTGB (University of Tokyo Genome Browser) Toolkit is designed to meet three major requirements for personalization of genome browsers: easy installation of the system with minimum efforts, browsing locally stored data and rapid interactive design of web interfaces tailored to individual needs. The UTGB Toolkit is licensed under an open source license.

Availability: The software is freely available at http://utgenome.org/.

Contact: moris{at}cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Associate Editor: Alfonso Valencia

Received on March 24, 2009; revised on May 27, 2009; accepted on May 30, 2009

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