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Table 1 Comparison of genomic portals and web-based genome browsers

From: GeneDig: a web application for accessing genomic and bioinformatics knowledge

 

No page reloads for genome viewing?

Seamless zoom from chromosome to nucleotide views?

All sequenced organisms browsable?

RNA and Protein sequences on one page?

Protein domain information?

 

Copy and paste of sequences?

Multiple languages?

Search enabled?

Average time to locate results

GeneDig

 

30 sec

Ensembl [6]

P

 

2 min

NCBI [5]

P

 

1 min

UCSC Genome Browser [8]

P

 

3 min

GBrowse [10]

 

JBrowse [9]

 

  1. Feature assessments were performed at the time of writing. P: Protein track available. Users were timed performing 5 specific genomic tasks (Additional file 1: Figure S1).