Argo Genome Browser
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The Argo Genome Browser is the Broad Institute's production tool for visualizing and manually annotating whole genomes. This free and open source standalone Java 1.4 application provides:
- Display of sequence and annotation tracks (from FASTA, Genbank, GFF, BLAST, BED, Wiggle (WIG), and Genscan files)
- Extensive customization options
- Interactive zoom from megabase to nucleotide resolution
- Editing of individual features, supporting manual annotation
- Intuitive and elegant comparative perspective (ComBo) for viewing dot plots of multiple aligned sequences.
- Can be run as Applet or Webstart application as well as standalone application
Though other genome browsers with similar feature sets exist, we believe Argo provides a more flexible and intuitive user interface.
This software is open source and provided free of charge under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (as of release 1.0.18 on 2007-01-16) . You can download the source code here.
Releases are made about once every two months. The current release, version 1.0.28, was made available for download on 2008-07-07.
Bioinformatics instructors may wish to read about how Argo was used in other courses to illustrate fundamental concepts in computational genomics.
INTERNAL BROAD USERS ONLY: download the latest internal release here (VPN required)
Contact: Reinhard Engels argo-support@broad.mit.edu