Badger--an accessible genome exploration environment

Bioinformatics. 2013 Nov 1;29(21):2788-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt466. Epub 2013 Aug 11.

Abstract

Summary: 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.

Availability: 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.

Contact: [email protected].

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Genes
  • Genome
  • Genomics / methods*
  • Internet
  • Software*