...Users can combine tools in automatic analysis workflows, which can be shared. Chipster's interactive visualizations allow users to select datapoints and create new gene lists. For NGS data Chipster contains a built-in genome browser, which highlights SNPs and automatically indexes BAM files and calculates coverage.
Chipster’s ability to provide a biologist-friendly access to a powerful analysis platform is technically based on a desktop application user interface, a flexible distributed architecture, and the ability to integrate many types of analysis tools (command line, R/Bioconductor, Java, Web Services etc). ...