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      Representing short sequences in the context of a model organism genome

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      Date
      2008
      Author
      Lewis, Christopher Thomas
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      In the post-genomics era, the sheer volume of data is overwhelming without appropriate tools for data integration and analysis. Studying genomic sequences in the context of other related genomic sequences, i.e. comparative genomics, is a powerful technique enabling the identification of functionally interesting sequence regions based on the principal that similar sequences tend to be either homologous or provide similar functionality. Costs associated with full genome sequencing make it infeasible to sequence every genome of interest. Consequently, simple, smaller genomes are used as model organisms for more complex organisms, for instance, Mouse/Human. An annotated model organism provides a source of annotation for transcribed sequences and other gene regions of the more complex organism based on sequence homology. For example, the gene annotations from the model organism aid interpretation of expression studies in more complex organisms. To assist with comparative genomics research in the Arabidopsis/Brassica (Thale-cress/Canola) model-crop pair, a web-based, graphical genome browser (BioViz) was developed to display short Brassica genomic sequences in the context of the Arabidopsis model organism genome. This involved the development of graphical representations to integrate data from multiple sources and tools, and a novel user interface to provide the user with a more interactive web-based browsing experience. While BioViz was developed for the Arabidopsis/Brassica comparative genomics context, it could be applied to comparative browsing relative to other reference genomes. BioViz proved to be an valuable research support tool for Brassica / Arabidopsis comparative genomics. It provided convenient access to the underlying Arabidopsis annotation, allowed the user to view specific EST sequences in the context of the Arabidopsis genome and other related EST sequences. In addition, the limits to which the project pushed the SVG specification proved influential in the SVG community. The work done for BioViz inspired the definition of an opensource project to define standards for SVG based web applications and a standard framework for SVG based widget sets.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Computer Science
      Program
      Computer Science
      Supervisor
      Kusalik, Anthony J. (Tony); Parkin, Isobel A. P.
      Committee
      McQuillan, Ian; Lu, Paul; Keil, J. Mark; Covello, Patrick S.; Angel, Joseph F.
      Copyright Date
      2008
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-05062009-100513
      Subject
      Bioinformatics
      Comparative Genomics
      Visualization
      Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
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