From the webpage:
Golden Helix GenomeBrowse® visualization tool is an evolutionary leap in genome browser technology that combines an attractive and informative visual experience with a robust, performance-driven backend. The marriage of these two equally important components results in a product that makes other browsers look like 1980s DOS programs.
Visualization Experience Like Never Before
GenomeBrowse makes the process of exploring DNA-seq and RNA-seq pile-up and coverage data intuitive and powerful. Whether viewing one file or many, an integrated approach is taken to exploring your data in the context of rich annotation tracks.
This experience features:
- Zooming and navigation controls that are natural as they mimic panning and scrolling actions you are familiar with.
- Coverage and pile-up views with different modes to highlight mismatches and look for strand bias.
- Deep, stable stacking algorithms to look at all reads in a pile-up zoom, not just the first 10 or 20.
- Context-sensitive information by clicking on any feature. See allele frequencies in control databases, functional predictions of a non-synonymous variants, exon positions of genes, or even details of a single sequenced read.
- A dynamic labeling system which gives optimal detail on annotation features without cluttering the view.
- The ability to automatically index and compute coverage data on BAM or VCF files in the background.
I’m very interested in seeing how the interface fares in the bioinformatics domain. Every domain is different but there may be some cross-over in term of popular UI features.
I first saw this in a tweet by Neil Saunders.