A visual spreadsheet using HTML5 for whole genome display

Abstract

A Visual Spreadsheet using HTML5 for Whole Genome Display Nada Alhirabi Modern sequencing technology has enabled the cheap, rapid production of whole genomes. There is a need for visualization tools to show the data collected about a whole genome such as genes, proteins, annotations, and expression data. Many common approaches are developed such as the genome browser where sequence features are displayed as visual elements in tracks and features are aligned with their genome coordinates, visual networks where the data elements represented as nodes and relationship as edges, and traditional spreadsheet where each row captures the information about a gene/genome where the information is textual in nature, such as identifiers, descriptions, or sequences. Our study is focusing in the last approach with introducing some advanced features.