SegAnnDB: Interactive Web-based genomic segmentation

Toby D. Hocking, Valentina Boeva, Guillem Rigaill, Gudrun Schleiermacher, Isabelle Janoueix-Lerosey, Olivier Delattre, Wilfrid Richer, Franck Bourdeaut, Miyuki Suguro, Masao Seto, Francis Bach, Jean Philippe Vert

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Abstract

Motivation: DNA copy number profiles characterize regions of chromosome gains, losses and breakpoints in tumor genomes. Although many models have been proposed to detect these alterations, it is not clear which model is appropriate before visual inspection the signal, noise and models for a particular profile. Results: We propose SegAnnDB, a Web-based computer vision system for genomic segmentation: first, visually inspect the profiles and manually annotate altered regions, then SegAnnDB determines the precise alteration locations using a mathematical model of the data and annotations. SegAnnDB facilitates collaboration between biologists and bioinformaticians, and uses the University of California, Santa Cruz genome browser to visualize copy number alterations alongside known genes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1539-1546
Number of pages8
JournalBioinformatics
Volume30
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2014
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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