New feature: Inventory of tracks
The users can now control the list of available tracks for each map set. As you probably know, a track panel shown on each map lists the tracks that can be shown or hidden. By clicking the LED-like bubbles the...
General News
A short 4-min video overview of Persephone
We just posted this video that was rolling at our booth at PAG to Youtube. It is a very quick "flashing" introduction to the features of Persephone. It has been built for those who does not have much time to...
New feature: Export genomic sequences
Now you can export the DNA sequence of any part of a map or the entire genome. The web application has gotten another upgrade - a few ways to export the genomic sequences. In the previous version, the users could extract...
Persephone Software at PAG 2023
23 January 2023
in General News
We just came back from the Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego. For three days of the exhibits, we were meeting scientists who expressed interest in Persephone at our booth. We are always happy to listen to the users'...
Three Drosophila genomes added
We added genomes from the Drosophila genus: D.melanogaster, D.simulans, and D.yakuba. For now, the sequences are annotated using RefSeq gene models from NCBI. Aligning and comparing the genomic sequences by the ortholog genes reveals clear structural rearrangements. Synteny matrix comparing two full...
Tip: Using Export to create new tracks
When exporting the track data, a user is presented with a data grid that can be customized. We can use this to create an output file in CSV format that can be imported back to create a new track. For...
Another major feature upgrade: Export track data
We have made a significant step forward by adding a few new features. One of them is a powerful module for exporting data from the Persephone database. This can be done in an interactive way by using a graphical user...
Major version upgrade: variants
We are happy to introduce a major new feature in the web version: a specialized interface designed to analyze genotyping samples with SNPs and indels. The variant data for thousands of individuals are displayed as a new type of track...
A pair of beet (Beta vulgaris) genomes have been added
The newly published Beta vulgaris EL10_1.0 genome has been uploaded to our web portal to accompany another beet genome RefBeet-1.2.2. The two assemblies can be aligned by connecting gene ortholog pairs (bookmark) Please let us know if loading other tracks for...
BAM tracks can be loaded permanently
The Persephone genome viewer normally visualizes the data stored in a database. The users can add their own tracks (visible to them only) by loading external files. Among the supported types of user tracks are the tracks with NGS read...