WebWise: Guide to the Washington University Center for Genetics in Medicine Web Site

The red circles indicate features that are available at this web site or the quality of a given feature within a general range of better (a) to worse (f). Sequence data are assessed for availability from an FTP site, availability in a database (such as ACDB), whether archived sequences are linked directly to the public database records, the frequency of FTP site update, and whether any sequence annotation is provided in either a text or graphic format. Each web site is scored for the availability of various search services, including the ability to carry out similarity searches against the sequences in their database or perform a key word search of the map data, sequence data, or web site. Documentation and availability of software tools developed by the center are also indicated. (GSC) Washington University’s Genome Sequencing Center; (SC) The Sanger Center; (SHGC) Stanford Human Genome Center; (W/MIT) Whitehead/MIT Genome Center; (BCM) Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Center; (JENA) The Institute of Molecular Biology Genome Sequencing Center Jena; (UTSW) McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwest; (UWGC) University of Washington Genome Center; (CGM) Washington University Center for Genetics in Medicine.

Although the genome sequencing centers have agreed to update sequence data on a daily basis, the update frequency is not explicitly indicated on the web site.