xGDB: open-source computational infrastructure for the integrated evaluation and analysis of genome features

Shannon D Schlueter¹^,2 , Matthew D Wilkerson¹ , Qunfeng Dong¹^,3 and Volker Brendel¹^,4

¹Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3260, USA

²Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA

³Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3700, USA

⁴Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3260, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R111doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-11-r111


Published:	20 November 2006

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies

Abstract

The eXtensible Genome Data Broker (xGDB) provides a software infrastructure consisting of integrated tools for the storage, display, and analysis of genome features in their genomic context. Common features include gene structure annotations, spliced alignments, mapping of repetitive sequence, and microarray probes, but the software supports inclusion of any property that can be associated with a genomic location. The xGDB distribution and user support utilities are available online at the xGDB project website, http://xgdb.sourceforge.net/.