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What data formats does Apollo read?

April 26, 2017Apollo Data formats read

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What data formats does Apollo read?

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The most robust Apollo data adapters read GAME XML (the format used for the Drosophila annotations), ChadoXML (the version used at FlyBase Harvard) and the Ensembl version of GFF. The Ensembl group has enabled Apollo to read data via the Ensembl CGI and directly from Ensembl databases, with the EnsJ/Otter adapter. There are also two useful data adapters currently under development. The Analysis adapter lets you read raw analysis results (BLAST, sim4, GENSCAN, etc.) into Apollo. This is mostly working, although the GUI needs work. The GenBank adapter is also mostly working but needs more testing. New in Release 1.5.0 is a Chado XML adapter. Right now, it is very FlyBase-specific and needs to be generalized, but it would be a good starting point for a group that is using a Chado database. We recently did some preliminary work towards enabling Apollo to act as a client for DAS/2 servers. It can now read simple DAS2XML files.