Learn to Use Integrated Genome Browser to Explore, Analyze and Share Data for your Newly Sequenced Genome - an Example from Blueberry

Integrated Genome Browser is a high-performance, desktop genome browser freely available for download from BioViz.org. Easy-to-use installers are available for every platform. Originally developed (at Affymetrix) to display genome tiling array data for the ENCODE project, IGB is now a versatile tool for visualizing RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, Bisulfite-Seq, and other *Seq datasets. IGB can also be used to run BLAST searches, search InterPro, view data from Galaxy, design PCR primers, map restriction sites, show plus and minus strand features in the same or different tracks, view paired-end read data, copy and paste genomic sequence, and much more. IGB is also extensible. Using a new services-based API, developers can add new functions and features as IGB Apps. For communities working with a new genome assemblies, one the most useful features is IGB Quickload. IGB Quickload is a simple system of files and folders for sharing genome data on the Web. Using IGB Quickload, research groups can easily set up their own genome browser system. In this demo, I'll describe this simple system and how we used it to make an IGB Quickload site for blueberry.