UTGB toolkit for personalized genome browsers

• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp350
• Publication Date: 2009-06-05T00:24:32Z
• Authors: Taro L. Saito; Jun Yoshimura; Shin Sasaki; Budrul Ahsan; Atsushi Sasaki; Reginaldo Kuroshu; Shinichi Morishita
• Keywords: MIT License; Pace; Genome browser

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