The Generic Genome Browser

GBrowse is... a Generic, well, Genome Browser. Runs on BioPerl, MySQL (or PostgreSQL, OracleDB)

See the GMOD page http://www.gmod.org and http://www.gmod.org/ggb. Also see paper Stein LD et al.  The generic genome browser: a building block for a model organism system database.  Genome Res. 2002 Oct;12(10):1599-610..

-- JasonStajich - 03 Jun 2005

The AJAX version of GBrowse

The Holmes lab is currently extending GBrowse to use AJAX technology. See the prototype GBrowse page for more info.

See also the following comments on TWiki, Javascript and Ajax:

• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/UsingAJAXTechnology
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/UsersCanPutJavascriptInTopics

Part of our current server implementation is the Perl module TiledImage.

-- IanHolmes - 08 Nov 2005

Discussion of this continues on the new GBrowse web.

-- IanHolmes - 15 Apr 2006