This will be a hands-on tutorial on how to install and use a genome browser.

Tutorial Level

Beginner to Intermediate. Students should be comfortable performing simple system administration tasks like stopping and starting services.

Students who wish to use their own computer should preinstall the prerequisites described at http://www.gmod.org/ggb/INSTAL L.html, including Perl, Apache, MySQL and (for Unix) BioPerl.

Intended Audience

GBrowse is sufficently easy to install that a biologist can easily set up and configure a GBrowse server after the initial hurdles of learning about configuration options and file formats are overcome. This class is intended to help them over those hurdles.

Outline

• The Basics
• The Data File
• Defining Tracks
• Searching for Named Features
• Adding Descriptions to a Feature
• Showing multi-segmented features
• Using Aggregators
• Showing Protein Coding Genes
• Showing the Reading Frame
• Creating Custom Aggregators
• Showing Quantitative Data
• Displaying DNA and 3-frame translations

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