Webinar on Savant Genome Browser: Thursday May 19th 2011 at 2pm EST

[mfiume]

We'll be hosting a webinar on Savant on Thursday May 19th 2011 at 2pm EST.

The session will be suitable for new and experienced users. Participation is free, but requires registration. Please visit www.savantbrowser.com/webinar for more information.

Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested in this event.

Thanks for using Savant!
Marc Fiume

[ETHANol]

It looks like a nice tool but what I need and I'm sure a lot of other people need is a library of publicly available tracks like what the UCSC browser has but even more extensive.

Now if someone could make a desktop browser and combine that with a library of tracks from publicly available data in a compatible format with the browser, that would be really useful.

[mfiume]

Hi ETHANol,

Thanks for the message. We're making Savant do very much what you are proposing -- we're developing plugins that enable access to various popular data stores, including UCSC. For example, our UCSC plugin allows you to open virtually all tracks that are available in the UCSC table browser. I'll give a demonstration of the UCSC plugin on Thursday. We also have a 1000 Genomes Plugin, which enables browsing of their alignment files.

If you have any more suggestions for database support, we're happy to hear them.

Best,
Marc

[mfiume]

Reminder that the webinar is today at 2pm EST. Hope to see you there!

Marc