Badger--an accessible genome exploration environment.

Elsworth, Ben; Jones, Martin; Blaxter, Mark · Bioinformatics · 2013

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Abstract

High-quality draft genomes are now easy to generate, as sequencing and assembly costs have dropped dramatically. However, building a user-friendly searchable Web site and database for a newly annotated genome is not straightforward. Here we present Badger, a lightweight and easy-to-install genome exploration environment designed for next generation non-model organism genomes. Badger is released under the GPL and is available at http://badger.bio.ed.ac.uk/. We show two working examples: (i) a test dataset included with the source code, and (ii) a collection of four filarial nematode genomes. mark.blaxter@ed.ac.uk.

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