WebGBrowse Software

WebGBrowse is essentially a set of Perl CGI scripts which allow the configuration of the various features, derived from the GFF3 file supplied as input, into individual GBrowse tracks for display. The system is data driven powered by a glyph library which comprises of the information regarding the various configurable parameters specific to each of the 42 different Bio::Graphics::Glyph types. This information is stored in the form of hash references serialized into YAML libraries which can be loaded into the HTML::FormEngine to generate the html forms which gather the configuration information from the user. These html forms are powered with java script and DHTML for improved usability and the validations on the user input. The user responses will be saved into YAML files and finally, this collected information is translated into a configuration file which will be copied into the gbrowse.conf folder allowing the GBrowse display.

Documentation:
The downloadable version of this software is designed for Linux platform.

Reference:
Podicheti R., Gollapudi R., Dong Q. (2009). "WebGBrowse--a web server for GBrowse." Bioinformatics 25(12): 1550-1551.

Download:

For Linux - webgbrowse.v2.tar.gz

Requirements:

• Operating system - Linux server
• Database management system - MySQL v5.0
• Perl Modules - Bioperl v1.5.2