The Genome Viewer
Introduction
The Genome Viewer (also known as the
SEED Viewer) is our window into the various genetic data bases on the
NmpdrWebsite. It comes in two slightly different flavors.
The NMPDR logo and banner (shown at left) appears when you are working with the
Sprout Database, which contains curated data on mostly-complete genomes. When you are working on data in progress, you get the SEED logo and banner (shown at right).
You'll see the SEED logo on the
MG-RAST Server and the
RAST Server. (You'll also see it at the
Annotation Clearinghouse, but in that case it's not the Seed Viewer, it's the clearinghouse editor.) While you're using the RAST servers, you're looking at a combination of your own data and the publicly-available genome data in an NMPDR database, as shown in the diagram to the right.
A sample Genome Viewer page is shown below. Directly under the banner is a menu bar for navigation. On most pages, the top section contains an overview of information about the object being viewed (in this case, a
feature). The bottom section contains graphical information such as pie charts or a browsable genome map. In most cases, there will be two tabs in this area. The
Visual tab contains the graphic, and the
Tabular tab contains the same information in a table suitable for sorting, filtering, and downloading.
Topics
- LinkingToTheGenomeViewer We support linking to the GenomeViewer using a generic mechanism via the base URL The linkin.cgi script provides a short, unified mechanism for getting into ...