The STATegra NGS Experiment Management System

High-throughput sequencing and NGS-based assays have gained popularity as methodologies to study different levels of genome organization. One of the advantages of NGS experiments is that little or no a priori genome knowledge is required, which makes them universally applicable to the study of model and non-model organisms. in the decreasing costs and commercial service availability of sequencing have put the technology within reach of most laboratories, which can now use one or more NGS assay in their research projects. While the number of samples and replicates in these experiments are relatively modest, these can quickly grow to several dozens of samples and thus require standardized annotation, storage and management of preprocessing steps. As a part of the STATegra project, we have developed an Experiment Management System for omics experiments that include different types of NGS-based assays, proteomics and metabolomics data. We specifically support sequencing experiments such as RNA-seq, miRNA-seq, Chip-seq, Methyl-seq, or DNase-seq and can easily be extended to support additional sequencing assays. In the Demo we will show the basic functionalities of the tool: experiment annotation, sample annotation, sequencing data annotation and annotation of processing pipelines. Additionally, we will show how to use the different application wizards for batch data submission and annotation. The STATegraEMS is available at http://bioinfo.cipf.es/stategraems_app/