Why doesn PlantGDB use GBrowse or Ensembl genome browsers?
PlantGDB’s genome focus is on accurate spliced alignments of transcript to genomes, a critical component of accurate genome annotation. The xGDB genome browser platform used at PlantGDB has unique features that make it useful for viewing and annotating genomes: • All splicing evidence can be viewed online and reproduced using web tools provided at PlantGDB. • A community annotation tool (yrGATE) and gene model incongruence-detection system (GAEVAL) are built in, to facilitate genome annotation. • Each xGDB has powerful BLAST tools and search tools to retrieve upstream sequence for motif analysis. • xGDB supports the DAS (Distributed Annotation Service) standard for cross-platform data display, and provides both DAS client and DAS server capabilities. • The complete xGDB code is available as open source software and can be custome-installed on a Linux server. For more information, see the Genome Browser Help Page.
