Navigating protected genomics data with UCSC Genome Browser in a Box.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25348212.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu712 and PMC identifier 4341066.
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Abstract
Genome Browser in a Box (GBiB) is a small virtual machine version of the popular University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser that can be run on a researcher's own computer. Once GBiB is installed, a standard web browser is used to access the virtual server and add personal data files from the local hard disk. Annotation data are loaded on demand through the Internet from UCSC or can be downloaded to the local computer for faster access. Software downloads and installation instructions are freely available for non-commercial use at https://genome-store.ucsc.edu/. GBiB requires the installation of open-source software VirtualBox, available for all major operating systems, and the UCSC Genome Browser, which is open source and free for non-commercial use. Commercial use of GBiB and the Genome Browser requires a license (http://genome.ucsc.edu/license/).
Medical subject headings
- Databases, Genetic
- Genome, Human
- Genomics
- Information Storage and Retrieval
- Sequence Analysis, DNA