Klee Kathrin, Ernst Rebecca, Spannagl Manuel, Mayer Klaus F X
MIPS/Institute for Bioinformatics, GSF Research Center for Environment and Health, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1; 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 Aug 30;8:320. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-320.
Apollo, a genome annotation viewer and editor, has become a widely used genome annotation and visualization tool for distributed genome annotation projects. When using Apollo for annotation, database updates are carried out by uploading intermediate annotation files into the respective database. This non-direct database upload is laborious and evokes problems of data synchronicity.
To overcome these limitations we extended the Apollo data adapter with a generic, configurable web service client that is able to retrieve annotation data in a GAME-XML-formatted string and pass it on to Apollo's internal input routine.
This Apollo web service adapter, Apollo2Go, simplifies the data exchange in distributed projects and aims to render the annotation process more comfortable. The Apollo2Go software is freely available from ftp://ftpmips.gsf.de/plants/apollo_webservice.
Apollo是一款基因组注释查看器和编辑器,已成为分布式基因组注释项目中广泛使用的基因组注释和可视化工具。使用Apollo进行注释时,数据库更新是通过将中间注释文件上传到各自的数据库来完成的。这种非直接的数据库上传既费力又会引发数据同步问题。
为克服这些限制,我们用一个通用的、可配置的网络服务客户端扩展了Apollo数据适配器,该客户端能够以GAME-XML格式的字符串检索注释数据,并将其传递给Apollo的内部输入程序。
这个Apollo网络服务适配器Apollo2Go简化了分布式项目中的数据交换,旨在使注释过程更加便捷。Apollo2Go软件可从ftp://ftpmips.gsf.de/plants/apollo_webservice免费获取。