STINGRAY

STINGRAY integrates and analyzes genomic and expression data from Sanger sequencing and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms to provide functional annotation, phylogenetic analysis, and genomic data presentation.

Key Features:

• Data types supported: Handles genomic and expression data from both Sanger sequencing and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms.
• Integrated toolset: Incorporates over 20 distinct bioinformatics tools for diverse analyses.
• Functional annotation: Performs functional annotation of sequences.
• Phylogenetic analysis: Performs phylogenetic analyses on sequence data.
• Data integration and storage: Uses a MySQL relational database schema for efficient data integration and user access control.
• Workflow coverage: Supports processing from raw data through final analysis and presentation.
• Performance characteristics: May perform more efficiently with Sanger datasets than with very large NGS datasets due to potential MySQL performance limitations.

Scientific Applications:

• Functional annotation: Annotation of genes and sequences to infer function from genomic and expression data.
• Phylogenetic studies: Reconstruction and analysis of evolutionary relationships using sequence data.
• Genomic data presentation: Preparation and presentation of processed genomic and expression results for reporting and downstream analysis.

Methodology:

Computational steps explicitly include integration, analysis, annotation, and presentation of genomic and expression data using a MySQL relational database and an integrated set of over 20 bioinformatics tools, with support for Sanger and NGS data.