Dalliance: interactive genome viewing on the web

Bioinformatics. 2011 Mar 15;27(6):889-90. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr020. Epub 2011 Jan 19.

Abstract

Summary: Dalliance is a new genome viewer which offers a high level of interactivity while running within a web browser. All data is fetched using the established distributed annotation system (DAS) protocol, making it easy to customize the browser and add extra data.

Availability and implementation: Dalliance runs entirely within your web browser, and relies on existing DAS server infrastructure. Browsers for several mammalian genomes are available at http://www.biodalliance.org/, and the use of DAS means you can add your own data to these browsers. In addition, the source code (Javascript) is available under the BSD license, and is straightforward to install on your own web server and embed within other documents.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Computer Graphics
  • Genome
  • Genomics / methods*
  • Internet*
  • Programming Languages
  • Software*