[Gmod-announce] Initial release of GOView

[Scott C. <ca...@cs...>]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the initial release of GOView.  The GO Graphic Viewer 
module (Bio::GMOD::GO::View) generates a graphic that displays the parent 
and child relationships of a selected GO term. Two examples of its use in 
web-based user interfaces are included, goView.pl and goTermFinder.pl.
                                                                                                                                                                                              
The goView.pl program uses the Bio::GMOD::GO::View module to create a
web-based user interface that can be used to view and browse the Gene Ontology.
The terms are color coded based on whether they have child terms. A blue box
indicates that the term has child terms while a gray box indicates that the term
does not have child terms. Clicking on a blue box will expand that branch of the
ontology. The blue up arrow indicates that there are additional parent terms
available for the selected GO term.  Clicking on the up arrow will display the
parents of the selected GO term.
                                                                                                                                                                                              
The goTermFinder.pl program combines the Bio::GMOD::GO::View module with the
GO::TermFinder module to create a user-friendly resource for analyzing and viewing
GO terms that are shared by a group of genes. The Bio::GMOD::GO::View will display
the ontology based on the GO terms that are common among a group of genes (as
determined by the GO::TermFinder module). The boxes will be color-coded to indicate
how significant a GO term is as a parent for a given group of genes. In addition,
GO terms from the gene-association files that cannot be found in the ontology files
will be displayed at the top of the graphic. For more information about the
GO::TermFinder module, please see
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/GO-TermFinder/lib/GO/TermFinder.pm).
                                                                                                                                                                                              
This distribution includes the Bio::GMOD::GO::View module, an example of the
Bio::GMOD::GO::View module used in a web-based interface (goView.pl), and the
Bio::GMOD::GO::View module as a web-based interface in conjunction with the
GO::TermFinder (goTermFinder.pl).  It is a component of the Generic Model Organism
Systems Database project (GMOD.sourceforge.net).

GOView can be downloaded from the GMOD website at:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27707

Questions regarding GOView should be directed to Shuai Weng
(<sh...@ge...>).

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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         ca...@cs...
GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)                     216-392-3087
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory