Introduction
In molecular biology, looking at reactions and behaviors of specific molecular components in microscopic levels is important as with looking at the systematic behavior of the whole. Therefore, researchers need a scalable point of view, having access to all of the microscopic, macroscopic, and mesoscopic levels of biological knowledge. Moreover, biological data is highly multi-dimensional by nature, and understanding of the data requires multiple views, layers, or projections, for example, in the levels of genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome. Here we introduce Genome Projector, a searchable database browser with zoomable user interface using Google Map API. Genome Projector currently contains 4 views: Genome map, Plasmid map, Pathway map, and DNA walk. Web application of Genome Projector is available here.
Software
start Genome Projector!
Click here to start Genome Projector.
Although it should be intuitive, quick usage manual is available here.Detailed documentations, including software download/install, development API, are available here.
All data and software (including the source code) is freely available under GNU General Public License v.2.
Browsers
this web application is tested with the following browsers:
Internet Explorer 6 or above (we recommend using IE 7, since IE6 has performance issues)Safari 2 or above
Firefox 2 or above
Opera 9 or above
*We have been informed that GenomeProjector did not work on Konqueror. Please use the above browsers instead.
Documentations
Detailed documentation is available in wiki page.Types of views
Genome Map, Circular Genome Map, Pathway Map, DNA Walk is now available at Genome Projector!
Genome Map: Local nucleotide content is shown as graphs (A: red, T: green, G: yellow, C: Blue), and CDS are marked with blue stripes, tRNA with green stripes, and rRNA with red stripes. All objects (CDS, tRNA, rRNA) are clickable to display more information. Objects shown above the colored lines are genes on direct strand, and those below are in complementary strands.
Circular Genome Map: From the outer ring in wards, genes on direct strand (pink), genes on complementary strand (yellow), tRNAs (green arrows), rRNAs (pink or orange stripes depending on the strand), GC content (brown lines), GC skew (yellow lines). Replication origin and terminus predicted from the GC skew shift points are also labeled.
Pathway Map: Roche Biochemical Pathway Wallchart. Every enzyme (in blue text) is clickable to show more detailed information.
DNA Walk: Starting from the origin (marked by white axes), each base in the genome sequence is moved one pixel in the following directions: A-UP, T-DOWN, G-RIGHT, C-LEFT.
Zoomable user interface!
Every map is zoomable, with the familiar interface of Google Map.
In addition, all elements in Genome Map and Pathway Map views are clickable, even without the pins! (This function is not available in original Google Map. Only in Genome Projector!)
320 Bacteria genome
320 circular Bacteria genomes, are now available.
Keyword search
Users can search the genome with keywords, Result of the keyword search is conserved throughout the views.
