GeneView

Interactive Genbank Entry Visualization

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Genome centers are acquiring and releasing genetic sequence data at ever-increasing rates. So there is a need for representing the data in a way bioinformaticians and biologists can use efficiently.

GeneView is a software tool that allows the visualization of genetic sequence data. The data to be visualized are taken from the GenBank of NIH (National Institute of Health), an annotated collection of publicly accessible DNA and RNA sequences.

For the purpose of retrieving relevant information rapidly, a dynamic graphical display is preferred to a text-based display. Therefore we implemented an easy to use Graphical User Interface providing a multi-colored overview panel with zoom functionality.

This tool was developed during the winter semester 1996/97 within the scope of the course "Visualization of natural science data in JAVA and HTML". It was entirely written in the programming language JAVA. The choice for JAVA was made in consideration of its capabilities for building embedded applications for the World Wide Web (so-called Applets).

NOTE: In this beta version of GeneView, the data access is limited to the user's local file system. Further versions may include direct access to the GenBank databases.
You can also use GeneView locally. A gzipped tar package is here.

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Any comments, suggestions or technical problems? Please send email to the GeneView project team.

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