An interactive genome browser of association results from the UK10K cohorts project

Bioinformatics. 2015 Dec 15;31(24):4029-31. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv491. Epub 2015 Aug 26.

Abstract

High-throughput sequencing technologies survey genetic variation at genome scale and are increasingly used to study the contribution of rare and low-frequency genetic variants to human traits. As part of the Cohorts arm of the UK10K project, genetic variants called from low-read depth (average 7×) whole genome sequencing of 3621 cohort individuals were analysed for statistical associations with 64 different phenotypic traits of biomedical importance. Here, we describe a novel genome browser based on the Biodalliance platform developed to provide interactive access to the association results of the project.

Availability and implementation: The browser is available at http://www.uk10k.org/dalliance.html. Source code for the Biodalliance platform is available under a BSD license from http://github.com/dasmoth/dalliance, and for the LD-display plugin and backend from http://github.com/dasmoth/ldserv.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Genetic Association Studies*
  • Genetic Variation*
  • Genome, Human*
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Humans
  • Linkage Disequilibrium
  • Software*