WebWise: Guide to the Joint Genome Institute Web Site

This installment of the WebWise series reviews the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) web site (http://www.jgi.doe.gov/). The JGI, established in 1997 (Casey 1996), represents an ongoing consolidation of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) genome sequencing centers established at the Los Alamos (LANL), Lawrence Berkeley (LBNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL). The JGI web site presents a centralized information center to disseminate information pertaining to the sequencing efforts still being carried out at the three laboratories while a new central research facility is being built. Many of the data links lead to pages that are actually still hosted by these three research laboratories.

This review is intended to summarize the consolidated JGI web resource; pages hosted by LANL, LBNL, or LLNL are indicated on the site map displayed in Figure 1. However, the site map does not attempt to represent all of the information available at the LANL, LBNL, or LLNL web sites (http://www-ls.lanl.gov/;http://www-hgc.lbl.gov/;http://www-bio.llnl.gov/bbrp/genome/genome.html). The site map (Fig. 1) is intended to provide a simple road map to data and tools pages. Therefore, it does not include all of the links provided on the JGI site map; redundant links as well as some groupings of related links are depicted as a single link on the site map. The main features of this web site, as well as the features of those sites already reviewed, are indicated in Table 1. As with the previous WebWise reviews, you may find it useful to point your Browser window to the JGI web site while reading.