[Gmod-announce] Flash GViewer tool released

[Twigger S. <si...@mc...>]

I've put a Macromedia Flash version of the RGD GViewer tool into the  
GMOD repository and it is now available for download from the  
sourceforge site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmod). It requires  
the Flash plugin (Version 7) to run (if you just have version 6 it  
opens but doesnt load any data).

GViewer is a web-based genome visualization tool that shows an  
organism's chromosomes (and banding patterns which could be the usual  
p and q cytogenetic bands or syntenic regions or feature density -  
whatever you want to show) and features which align with the  
chromosomes such as genes, QTLs, probesets, etc. It is intended to  
provide an overview of the locations of targetted sets of features -  
proteins identified in a proteomics experiment, genes differentially  
regulated in a microarray experiment, genes and QTLs associated with  
a phenotype, etc. The features can hyperlink out to a report page,  
you can zoom in an view single chromosomes with the features laid out  
and labelled for easier viewing, etc.

The Flash movie has input XML files that describe the genome, its  
chromosomes and bands (the baseMap) and can receive the list of  
features to display from a static XML file, XML embedded in the flash  
HTML tag or from a server side script. More information on the  
features, some screen shots and links to more documentation and a  
demonstration version of the tool are available from the FlashGViewer  
page on GMOD:

http://www.gmod.org/FlashGViewer/

The download comes with Rat, Mouse and Human base maps, a sample HTML  
page and annotation files for easy initial installation. Source code  
is available via CVS but you will need Flash Professional v7 to be  
able to edit it. Im looking for feedback on the features and other  
suggestions for functionality that people might like to see. If you  
give it a try, please let me know how it goes.

Simon.

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Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D.
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Medical College of Wisconsin
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