The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is used in bioinformatics to share and collate genomic annotation information.[1][2][3] It is an open source project.
From the biodas.org web site:
The distributed annotation system (DAS) is a client-server system in which a single client integrates information from multiple servers. It allows a single machine to gather up genome annotation information from multiple distant web sites, collate the information, and display it to the user in a single view. Little coordination is needed among the various information providers.
[edit] Sites and tools currently using DAS
[edit] DAS clients
| Name | Description | Links |
| Jalview | A multiple sequence alignment editor & viewer | [1] |
| Geodesic | An stand-alone Java application | [2] |
| DasView | A server-side Perl application. This tool is mentioned in the original DAS publication, but has subsequently disappeared. | |
| EnsEMBL | The EnsEMBL Genome Browser. Provides built-in support for DAS | [3] |
| SPICE | A browser for the annotations for protein sequences and structures | [4] [5] [6] |
| Dasty | A web client for visualizing protein sequence feature information using DAS | [7] [8] |
| IGB | The Integrated Genome Browser (IGB, pronounced "ig-bee") is an application built upon the GenoViz SDK and Genometry for visualization and exploration of genomes and corresponding annotations from multiple data sources | [9] |
| WormBase | The WormBase genome Browser. Includes a DAS viewer named DASView | |
| TIGR DAS Viewer | | [10] ? |
| BioJava DAS Client | | |
| OmniGene | The user interface is based on the EnsEMBL interface | [11] [12] |
| STRAP | Underlining sequence features in multiple alignments. Example output: [13] | [14] |
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[edit] References
- ^ Dowell RD, Jokerst RM, Day A, Eddy SR, Stein L (2001). "The distributed annotation system.". BMC Bioinformatics 2: 7. PMID 11667947.
- ^ Finn RD, Stalker JW, Jackson DK, Kulesha E, Clements J, Pettett R (2007). "ProServer: a simple, extensible Perl DAS server.". Bioinformatics 23 (12): 1568-70. PMID 17237073.
- ^ Jenkinson AM, Albrecht M, Birney E, Blankenburg H, Down T, Finn RD, Hermjakob H, Hubbard TJ, Jimenez RC, Jones P, Kähäri A, Kulesha E, Macías JR, Reeves GA, Prlic A (2008). "Integrating biological data - the Distributed Annotation System.". BMC Bioinformatics 9 Suppl 8: S3. PMID 18673527.
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