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genomation: a toolkit to summarize, annotate and visualize genomic intervals

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: UNLABELLED: Biological insights can be obtained through computational integration of genomics data sets consisting of diverse types of information. The integration is often hampered by a large variety of existing file formats, often containing similar information, and the necessity to use complicated tools to achieve the desired results. We have built an R package, genomation, to expedite the extraction of biological information from high throughput data. The package works with a variety of genomic interval file types and enables easy summarization and annotation of high throughput data sets with given genomic annotations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The software is currently distributed under MIT artistic license and freely available at http://bioinformatics.mdc-berlin.de/genomation, and through the Bioconductor framework.

Source: Bioinformatics

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu775

Authors: Altuna Akalin, Vedran Franke, Kristian Vlahoviček, Christopher E. Mason, Dirk Schübeler

Institutions: University of Zagreb, University of Oslo, University of Basel, Friedrich Miescher Institute

Language: English

Topic: Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: European Commission, SystemsX.ch, FP7 Health